I had to read this book for school when we studied Japanese internment. And I can't say I loved it. The paragraphs were written in haikus, or something, and it took me two chapters to figure out who the main character was and if it was a boy or a girl. All in all, it wasn't a bad book about Japanese Internment in Canada, but I wouldn't read it over again if I could avoid it. "Shichan", the main character, was kind of blah, too. I think she should have spent mroe time thinking about her feelings and thoughts than talking about snow. It wasn't too long, though, which was pretty good.