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82) Mask
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Akiko, Mae, and Josie, also called the Infinity Trinity, spring into action after learning that a spy is betraying secrets to the Japanese military--and that Akiko's mother may be involved.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sana Kiyohara has many secrets. Like how it bothers her when her friends don't invite her to parties, or that her father may be having an affair. And she can barely even admit to herself that she might have a crush on her best friend. Jamie is beautiful and smart and unlike anyone Sana's ever known. When a sweet guy named Caleb seems to have more-than-friendly feelings for Sana, and her dad's affair is becoming too obvious to ignore anymore, Sana...
87) Paper wishes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
88) Heroes
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee; Ground Zero; Two Degrees) is a major publishing moment. A new World War II novel from Alan Gratz? That's even bigger! Get ready for an action-packed, inventive, and powerful take on the attack on Pearl Harbor, as only Alan Gratz can tell it. December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the...
90) The color of air
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a gorgeous and evocative historical novel about a Japanese-American family set against the backdrop of Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the memories of...
Author
Publisher
CityFiles Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1942 more than 109,000 Japanese Americans, including 70,000 U.S. citizens, were picked up and sent to incarceration centers, most for the duration of the war. It was the shame of America-- and it was documented on film. Cahan and Williams provide a visual history which includes interviews with many of the people reflecting on their experiences.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1360L
Language
English
Description
In another unrelenting look at the iniquities of the American justice system, Lawrence Goldstone, acclaimed author of Unpunished Murder, Stolen Justice, and Separate No More, examines the history of racism against Japanese Americans, exploring the territory of citizenship and touching on fears of non-white immigration to the US — with hauntingly contemporary echoes.
On December 7, 1941 — "a date which
...93) A boy no more
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Includes personal accounts to describe the period in American history when Japanese Americans were detained in internment camps; also, discusses the issues and controversy surrounding the decision.
96) The children of Topaz: the story of a Japanese-American internment camp : based on a classroom diary
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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.
99) Gigi and Ojiji
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji-Japanese grandpa-to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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...
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