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61) Silent honor
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English
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When Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese government, the United States no longer is a safe place for the American born Japanese. This novel tells the story of one family's relocation to a detention camp.
62) Sylvia & Aki
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English
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When Aki's family is sent to a Japanese internment camp at the beginning of World War II, Sylvia's family leases their farm. But Sylvia also faces discrimination, as a Mexican American. Includes black-and-white photographs of the real Sylvia and Aki.
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From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children to a family internment camp in Texas. Crystal City was the center of a government program called "quiet passage," under which hundreds were exchanged for more important Americans held behind enemy lines. Jan Jarboe Russell details a little-known story of how the definition of American citizenship changed under the pressure of war....
64) Kira-kira
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English
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Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are...
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English
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In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and courage: the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated in camps back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights, even if it meant imprisonment. They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese...
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen. Sequel to "A Jar of Dreams."
70) A boy no more
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English
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After witnessing the USS Arizona sink in Pearl Harbor - with his father aboard - fifteen year old Adam Pelko, along with his mother and young sister, moves from Hawaii to California. Without his dad, facing a new school and new surroundings is hard enough, but then Adam's best friend, Davi Mori, writes from Hawaii asking for help in finding his father. Davi and his family are Japanese Americans, and his father has been arrested and is imprisoned...
71) A jar of dreams
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
72) Journey home
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English
Description
After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
73) When I grow up
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Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The students in Mrs. Jenkins' class explore the careers they'd like to have when they grow up, including Yoko who wants to be a Japanese teacher.
80) Journey home
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Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1992
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English
Description
After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.