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2) Silence
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
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"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times "Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review. Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith,...
4) Knowing you
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Pictures of the heart volume 3
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Budding artist May Parker is captivated by the Japanese exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and longs to know more about her mother's heritage--which her mother refuses to speak of because of the heartache she left behind in Japan. Wanting to experience more of the exhibits, May works as a Camera Girl--but her curiosity leads her into danger when a suit of samurai armor becomes the target of an elusive art forger. After ten years apart,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
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"A mysterious gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune that he can travel around the world in just eighty days. Accompanied by his hapless servant Passepartout, Fogg sets out on a journey through jungles, deserts and mountains, across oceans and into great dangers"--
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Kimi Nakamura loves fashion and designing clothes, jewelry, and accessories for her friends, but her mother, a professional graphic designer with a long list of clients, wants her to be a serious artist, and is furious when she discovers Kimi has dropped her fine arts class; so Kimi is relieved to be able to visit her normally estranged grandparents in Kyoto during spring break--but what begins as an escape becomes a way to learn about her mother...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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In many ways, Niles should be as American as apple pie: raised by missionary parents, taught to respect his elders and be an honorable and upright Christian citizen dreaming of the good life on the sun-blessed shores of California. But Niles is also Japanese: reared in the aesthetics of Shinto and educated in the dance halls and backroom poker gatherings of Tokyo's shady underworld to steal, trick and run for his life. As a gaijin, a foreigner --...
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Red gloves series volume 4
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"A fifteen-year-old girl longs for the father she never knew"--Provided by the publisher.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the "thought-provoking" (Library Journal, starred review) and "must-read" (PopSugar) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II and their journey back to one another. During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked...
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Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 49
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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When Wild Willie showed up at my door and invited me to travel with him to Japan, I jumped at the chance. We were in search of an ancient, legendary samurai scroll that holds the secret to a long-lost fighting technique. The scroll had fallen into the wrong hands, and it was up to me and Wild Willie to track it down and save the day. But first, we would have to fight a group of talented ninjas. Holey cheese -- this would be one adventure I would never...
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Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
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In Japan in 1861, Lord Genji, a young nobleman with a gift for prophecy, joins forces with two Christian missionaries, a mysterious geisha, and a legendary swordsman to embark on a harrowing odyssey toward an ultimate battle.
15) Suki's kimono
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Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A little girl declares that on the first day of school she will wear the kimono that her grandmother brought her during her visit from Japan, no matter what anyone says.
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
Jack y Annie son llevados por la casa del árbol al antiguo JapÃçn. Allà visitan una cueva donde se encuentran con un maestro ninja. ¿Aprenderán los secretos de la naturaleza antes de ser atrapados por los feroces samuráis?--Desde la descripciÃçn de la editorial.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 49
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Wild Willie showed up at my door and invited me to travel with him to Japan, I jumped at the chance. We were in search of an ancient, legendary samurai scroll that holds the secret to a long-lost fighting technique. The scroll had fallen into the wrong hands, and it was up to me and Wild Willie to track it down and save the day. But first, we would have to fight a group of talented ninjas. Holey cheese -- this would be one adventure I would never...
19) Silence
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Two Catholic missionaries face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan looking for their missing mentor, at a time when Catholicism was outlawed.
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Imagination station volume 20
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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"After tsunami waves sweep over the Imagination Station, it breaks down completely. Patrick and Beth wash up on the shores of Japan on September 1, 1923. The cousins fear if the waters doesn't get them, the earthquake will! Disaster engulfs the city of Tokyo, leaving families and friends separated and desperate. Thanks to a Japanese celebrity and a performing elephant, the cousins escape the worst of the earthquake and aid an abandoned child. They...