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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her...
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her...
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English
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After bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor, 14-year-old Lucy Takeda and her mother, Miyako, are rounded up--along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans--and taken to the Manzanar prison camp where they endure abuse and harsh living conditions until Miyako makes the ultimate sacrifice.
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English
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"Alan Brennert's beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama--quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa--was forced to give up at birth. The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in...
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English
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"Unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain Smith and a budding war profiteer. He's shacked up with Claire De Haven in Baja, Mexico, and spends his time sniffing out fifth column elements and hunting down a missing...
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English
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"Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada--Eagle and 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 tricks...
7) Silent honor
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English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in American history.
A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife’s belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter, Hiroko, torn between...
A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife’s belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter, Hiroko, torn between...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
9) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes.
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
10) Tallgrass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been predictable and fair. But the winds of change are coming, and with them, a shift in her perspective and a discovery of secrets that can destroy even the most sacred...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado"--
12) We are not free
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
17) Weedflower
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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.
18) Thin wood walls
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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.
19) The war outside
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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.
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Series
Publisher
Clean Teen Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What if Peter Pan was a homeless kid just trying to survive, and Wendy flew away for a really good reason? Desperate to run away, the world outside her oppressive brownstone calls to naive, eighteen-year-old Nora, the privileged daughter of a controlling and violent civil rights lawyer. But she is trapped, enduring abuse to protect her younger sister Frankie and wishing on the stars every night for things to change. A Japanese American orphaned at...