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2) Kira-kira
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Series
Prisoners of the empire volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
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Lucy Takeda is 14 years old and living in Los Angeles when Pearl Harbor is attacked. She and her mother are soon ripped from their home, rounded up --along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans, and taken to the Manzanar prison camp. Littlefield weaves a powerful tale of stolen innocence and survival that echoes through generations.
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Examines the history of Japanese in the United States, focusing on their treatment during World War II, including the mass relocation to internment camps and the distinguished service of Japanese Americans in the American military.
11) Thin wood walls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.
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The Principled Politician is a thoroughly researched, objectively written, long overdue book. Often, insincere plaudits are heaped upon deceased persons, most especially on noted politicians, but Schrager tells a different story. "Principled" is an accurate description of Ralph Carr, Governor of CO from 1939 to 1943. His entire life and political career were guided by sound moral principles from which he never backed down. Mr. Schrager convinces the...
13) Tallgrass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.
15) My mom and dad
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Lenny follows Kan for a school project and learns what it's like to have a multicultural family"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol. This simple act takes Henry back to the 1940s, when his world was a jumble of confusion...
18) Hiroshima dreams
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Lin O'Neil, a talented but shy girl growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, develops a close relationship with her Japanese grandmother, who shares Lin's gift of precognition.
19) Yoko
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
What a great day it's going to be! Yoko's mother has made her favourite sushi for lunch. The bus whisks Yoko to school, where she greets all her friends. But when lunchtime arrives, suddenly everyone notices Yoko's sushi. The teasing starts and her happy day evaporates.
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"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...