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Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
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." -- Provided by the publisher.
5) Dash
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (49 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
While he and his family are in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, Tommy Yamammoto tries to figure out who attacked an elderly internee and ends up finding some strange suspects.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
10) Four-four-two
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.
13) The moon bridge
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The friendship between San Francisco girls Mitzi Fujimoto and Ruthie Fox is changed when World War II begins and Mitzi and her family are forced to go into an internment camp.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 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
Publisher
Clean Teen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Nora & Kettle explores the collision of two teenagers facing extraordinary adversity. Kettle, an orphaned Japanese American, is struggling to make a life in the aftermath of an event in history not often referred to--the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the removal of children from orphanages for having "one drop of Japanese blood in them." Nora, the daughter of a civil rights lawyer who is building a compensation...
16) The bracelet
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
17) Paper wishes
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Manami does not realize how peaceful her life on Bainbridge Island, Washington, is until the day it all changes. It's 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are forced by the government to leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the California desert. Manami is sad to go, but, even worse, her family must give her dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr., 12 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
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.