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Publisher
Korematsu Institute
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 58 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fred Korematsu was probably never more American than when he resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his landmark Supreme Court case in 1944 but never his indignation and resolve. This is the untold history of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu, one that finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory
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.
43) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
274 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
On a visit to San Francisco, Kiku finds herself transported in time back to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 34
Physical Desc
xxiv, 710 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"--
48) Concentration camps, North America: Japanese in the United States and Canada during World War II
Author
Publisher
Krieger Pub
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Reissued 1993 with updating.
Physical Desc
xviii, 228, [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Nonfiction
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
287 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides the story of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II through the correspondence of the children in the camp to their librarian, Miss Clara Breed, who worked on their behalf to show the injustice of their imprisonment.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (16 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a WWII internment camp, Japanese American Tama works in the tiny library. As George comes by each day for more books, she wonders if anyone could possibly read so much, or is she the reason he comes by the library every day?
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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and carefully follows the treacherous path that led one of our nations most beloved presidents to make this decision. Meanwhile, it also illuminates the history of Japan and its own struggles with racism and xenophobia, which led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, ultimately tying the two countries together."--Amazon.com.
53) 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
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
xi, 68 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses firsthand accounts, oral histories, and essays from school newspapers and yearbooks to tell the story of the Japanese Americans who were sent to live in government-run internments camps during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), 1 map ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A photographic collection of arts and crafts made in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II, along with a historical overview of the camps"--Provided by publisher.
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
Language
English
Description
"In Infamy, acclaimed historian Richard Reeves delivers a sweeping narrative of this atrocity. Men we usually consider heroes-FDR, Earl Warren, Edward R. Murrow-were in this case villains. We also learn of internees who joined the military to fight for the country that had imprisoned their families, even as others fought for their rights all the way to the Supreme Court. The heart of the book, however, tells the poignant stories of those who endured...
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