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Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree.
62) We are not free
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
JEF - Historical Fiction - Young Adult
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
JEF - Historical Fiction - Young Adult
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
63) Journey home
Author
Language
English
Description
After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
64) A boy no more
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
68) When I grow up
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The students in Mrs. Jenkins' class explore the careers they'd like to have when they grow up, including Yoko who wants to be a Japanese teacher.
70) Drummer girl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Jasmine worries that she will be the only one with no talent to share in the school talent show until her mother brings out her taiko drum.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
FIrst edition.
Language
English
Description
On a trip to visit her grandparents in Japan, Tessa Miyata inadvertently releases the spirit of an evil samurai god who wants to destroy Tokyo, and stumbles upon a hidden part of the city where gods and mythological creatures walk among humans.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Eight-year-old Jasmine is enthusiastic about her family's vacation to Japan, but once in Tokyo she is distracted by her older sister's grumpiness and her own blunders--will she be able to cheer up her sister while finding her own footing? Includes author's note and recipe"--OCLC.
77) Heroes
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Japanese American Donnie, whose playmates insist he be the "bad guy" in their war games, calls on his reluctant father and uncle to help him get away from that role.
78) Faking reality
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old reality TV star Dakota grapples with the fact that her entire life is public fodder while at the same time she is wrestling with her feelings for her best friend Leo, who is dealing with his own issues at home.
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