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4) The Japanese
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Brings to life the experiences and heritage of Japanese immigrants, who left their native home in Japan to settle in North America between the 1880's and 1920's, including those held in internment camps in the United States during World War II.
5) The journey
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and photographed details of a mural depict the history of the Japanese people in America.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 6
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 Based on extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories, this book gives an in-depth account of their lives before and during their imprisonment, and after their release.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
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the reasons Japanese people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Focusing on a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, a dramatic account exposes a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II where hundreds of prisoners were exchanged for other Americans behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.
17) The children of Topaz: the story of a Japanese-American internment camp : based on a classroom diary
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
"Countless books and magazine articles have been written about the gross injustice of Japanese-American internment during World War II, and how hard and degrading life was in the camps. But relatively little has been published about what happened after the nightmare ended. In fact, there's a positive story to be told--in the context of that regrettable period in American history--and Beyond the Camps captures it through interviews with former internees...
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