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1) Evergreen
Author
Series
The Japantown mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
290 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1946: It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
305 pages : color illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
3) 1001 cranes
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.