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21) We are not free
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"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."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Takei's firsthand account of years spent in a Japanese concentration camp, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
23) Obasan
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
The narrator learns about the experiences of her grandmother, Obasan, who was among those Japanese Canadians relocated to internment camps at the beginning of World War II.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
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.
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Description
Olivia Dunne's life is changing dramatically. Her rather cloistered life as a studious minister's daughter in Denver shelters her from the drama of the Allied invasion that's about to occur on the other side of the globe. She finds herself banished to a rural Colorado outpost and married to a man she hardly know. Overwhelmed by loneliness, Olivia tentatively seeks to establish a new life, finding friendship and solace in two Japanese American sisters...
29) Heart Mountain
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Description
A "dazzling first novel" about Japanese Americans and their Wyoming neighbors in the era of WWII internment camps (Chicago Tribune). A renowned chronicler of life in the West, Gretel Ehrlich turns her talents to a moment in history when American citizens were set against each other, offering "a novel full of immense poetic feeling for the internal lives of its varied characters and the sublime high plains landscape that is its backdrop" (The New York...
Author
Series
Japantown mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The loyalty of Japanese Americans was questioned after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, simply because of their ancestry. Author David K. Fremon looks at the events behind this unfortunate episode from American history, highlighting the personal accounts of many Japanese Americans who were forced to live through this difficult time. The effects of this internment are still emerging, but the United States today recognizes that injustices were inflicted...
33) Weedflower
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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...
Author
Description
The Principled Politician is a thoroughly researched, objectively written, long overdue book. Often, insincere plaudits are heaped upon deceased persons, most especially on noted politicians, but Schrager tells a different story. "Principled" is an accurate description of Ralph Carr, Governor of CO from 1939 to 1943. His entire life and political career were guided by sound moral principles from which he never backed down. Mr. Schrager convinces the...
36) Eagle and crane
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Description
"Louis Thorn and Haruto 'Harry' Yamada ... are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil ... 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 ... they're both drawn to Shaw's smart and appealing stepdaughter,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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.
39) Bat 6: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
40) Dash
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.