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3) Silent honor
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Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
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.
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Rachel Kalama was quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa-- and forced to give up her daughter at birth. Ruth is taken to the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, and adopted by a Japanese couple who raise her on a farm in California. During World War II Ruth and her husband suffer internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp. After the war, she receives a letter from Rachel. As the two meet and come to love one...
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"Torn apart by war and bigotry, two families confront long-buried secrets in this haunting American novel of World War II and Vietnam. In the panoramic tradition of Charles Frazier's fiction, Phantoms is a fierce saga of American culpability. A Vietnam vet still reeling from war, John Frazier finds himself an unwitting witness to a confrontation, decades in the making, between two steely matriarchs: his aunt, Evelyn Wilson, and her former neighbor,...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Serving as a Supreme Court law clerk during World War II, Caswell "Cash" Harrison investigates the suspicious death of a colleague that may be related to the debate within the U.S. government surrounding the imprisonment of thousands of Japanese Americans.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
434 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"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...
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
313 p. : ill., maps, ; 20 cm.
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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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Italian-American Evalina and Japanese-American Taichi's vow to be together, although interracial marriage is illegal in 1941 San Francisco, is tested when Taichi's family is sent to Manzanar internment camp. Includes historical notes.
12) Color of the sea
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Growing up in a time between wars, Sam Hamada finds that the culture of his native Japan is never far from his heart. Sam is rapidly learning the code of the samurai in the late 1930s on the lush Hawaiian Islands, where he is slowly coming into his own as a son and a man.
But, after Sam strikes out for California, where he meets Keiko, the beautiful young woman destined to be the love of his life, he faces crushing disappointment, Keiko's parents...
13) Dash
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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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
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
92 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Fourteen-year-old Louise keeps a scrapbook detailing the events in her life after her best friend, a Japanese-American girl, and her family are sent to a relocation camp during World War II.
15) The war outside
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 53
Description
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Author
Pub. Date
p2015
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (180 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the onset of World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in concentration camps. Inspired by Shigeru Yabu's youthful camp experiences, this is a poignant coming-of-age story and a celebration of the human spirit under duress.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
373 pages cm
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A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
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