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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.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
xxvii, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the outbreak of World War II, more than 115,000 Japanese American civilians living on the West Coast of the United States were rounded up and sent to desolate "relocation" camps, where most spent the duration of the war. In this poignant and bitter yet inspiring oral history, John Tateishi allows thirty Japanese Americans, victims of this trauma, to speak for themselves. And Justice for All captures the personal feelings and experiences of the...
63) Eagle and crane
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch. 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...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Personal stories and moving archival footage tell the untold story of how Japanese internees were used by the US government to help develop a Native American reservation during World War II. Includes deleted scenes and filmmaker biography.
65) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--
Author
Publisher
Press Box Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
232 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Japanese Americans who lived in Lompoc before World War II... he reveals the successful efforts of local and state officials in pushing for the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. One of the greatest tragedies of this forced removal was the destruction of the Japanese American community of Lompoc..."--P. 7.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, An Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the wardrobe designer for some of the most popular television...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the case of Fred Korematsu, who sought compensation from the American government for his time spent in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.
76) Time of fear
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas, one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America. It explores the reactions of the native Arkansans who watched in bewilderment as their tiny towns were overwhelmed by this huge influx of outsiders. Through interviews with the internees...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she isdetermined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old, to capture community celebrations and to record his family's struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment. Colors...
Author
Publisher
Wing Luke Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused...
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