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1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn't matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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Maddie Kern elopes with her brother's best friend, Lane, a Japanese American, the day before the Pearl Harbor bombing, and now her family considers Lane not just an outsider, but an enemy. Maddie sacrifices her Juilliard education to follow Lane to a war relocation camp, and as she strives for the acceptance of her new family, Lane risks everything to prove his allegiance to America.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative account of Japanese internment activities during World War II draws on survivor testimonies and personal correspondences to illuminate the injustices suffered by detainees and the stories of those who tried to advocate on their behalf." --
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When brothers Taro and Jimmy and their mother are forced to move from their home in California to a Japanese internment camp in the wake of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, Taro daringly escapes the camp to find fresh fish for his grieving brother.
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Disappearance of flight 412 (72 min.). When two Air Force jets disappear while chasing a UFO, a respected colonel goes looking for the truth. He starts his own investigation and uncovers a plot more frightening than anything he could imagine.
If tomorrow comes (73 min.). A young couple, a California girl and a Japanese-American boy, ignore local prejudices and marry secretly--on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before the announcement that Pearl Harbor has...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were uprooted from their lives and incarcerated in relocation camps. Their stories, along with those who refused to go, are told in this Oscar nominated film.
Author
Publisher
CityFiles Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1942, the United States rounded up 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast and sent them to interment camps for the duration of World War II. Many abandoned their land. Many gave up their personal property. Each one of them lost a part of their lives
Series
Publications in anthropology) volume 74
Publisher
Western Archeological and Conservation Center
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Through the presentation of text, photographs, maps, and illustrations, this volume details the physical features of all of the facilities used by U.S. government to confine people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Each of the facilities is treated separately, with coverage including treatments of the relatively historically neglected internment camps.
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