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Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
Author
Publisher
Story Shares
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages)
Language
English
Description
A supposedly uncrackable safe gets burglarized. Valuable jewelry is stolen, along with a scrapbook that contains an old man's memories of being held as a boy in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. The four teenage members of the band The People Movers (Xavier Maplethorpe on vocals, Carlos Villarreal on lead guitar, Kenji Omura on bass, and Yusuf Karout on drums) investigate the case. Along the way to finding the identity of...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seven-year-old Laura and her family visit Grandfather's grave at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, the Japanese American child leaves behind a special symbol.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
136 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
373 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 brotherrisking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
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