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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
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Description

A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...

2) Tallgrass: [a novel]

Author

Dallas, Sandra

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14

Language

English

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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAL 2007
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION DAL 2007 UNABRIDGED
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Description

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.

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3) The lucky baseball: my story in a Japanese-American internment camp

Author

Lieurance, Suzanne

Series

Publisher

Enslow Publishers

Pub. Date

c2010

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LIE 2010
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Sparks Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LIE 2010
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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.

AANHPI Heritage Month for Kids
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Picture Books About Libraries

4) Love in the library

Author

Tokuda-Hall, Maggie

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2022.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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Incline Village Library - Children's Picture Books
J E TOKUDA 2022
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North Valleys Library - Children's Picture Books
J E TOKUDA 2022
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Description

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn’t know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp’s tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and...