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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, Ruth, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II.
Rachel Kalama was quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa-- and forced to give up her daughter at birth. Ruth is taken to the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, and adopted by a Japanese couple who raise...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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 brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Evalina Cassano and Taichi Hamasaki are torn apart by the events following the attack on Pearl Harbor, they must fight to return to one another before World War II steals their future together. From Stephanie Morrill comes Within These Lines, a Junior Library Guild selection, perfect for fans of Monica Hesse, Ruta Sepetys, and Elizabeth Wein.
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