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Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
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Description
"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Born on an island off the cost of Hiroshima around 1908, Midori Shimoda died in North Carolina in 1996, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for two decades. A photographer, he was incarcerated in a Department of Justice prison during WWII under suspicion of being a spy for Japan. From his birth to contract laborer/picture-bride parents to his immigration and prewar life in Seattle's Nihonmachi, to wartime incarceration and postwar resettlement...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"In Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of Manzanar."--Amazon.com.
26) No-no boy
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
1981, c1976
Physical Desc
xi, 260 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, Ichiro, a Japanese American, returns home to Seattle to make a new start after two years in an internment camp and two years in prison for refusing to be drafted.
28) World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
xxi, 117 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the United States participation in World War II, including the role of women and African Americans and the internment of Japanese Americans.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
Español
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.
30) Justice at war
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
407 p.
Language
English
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"--
32) The bracelet
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
[Yardley illus. ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
[Bilingual ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 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.
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.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Based on extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories, this book gives an in-depth account of their lives before and during their imprisonment, and after their release.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
156 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
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