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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
166 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the forced internment of Japanese Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor, their way of life there, and their eventual assimilation into society following the war.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition, First international edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, Ruth, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II.
3) Tallgrass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
231 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Trade pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Louis Thorn and Haruto 'Harry' Yamada--the Eagle and the Crane--are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas--Japanese immigrants--stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family. When Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen, performing death-defying...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 437 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Violinist Maddie elopes with Lane Moritomo, the ambitious son of Japanese immigrants, but after Pearl Harbor is bombed, Lane is seen as the enemy and she must sacrifice her Juilliard ambitions when he's interned at a war relocation camp.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
228 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
313, [4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
12) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
260 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
13) Shadow child
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
341 p.
Language
English
Description
"A haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow our histories can cast"--
14) Paper wishes
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
181 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
15) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
274 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Italian-American Evalina and Japanese-American Taichi's vow to be together, although interracial marriage is illegal in 1941 San Francisco, is tested when Taichi's family is sent to Manzanar internment camp. Includes historical notes.
19) The War Outside
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--