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Author
Series
Prisoners of the empire volume 4
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
1983-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the cooking of Japan featuring basic recipes for soups, appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts. Also describes some special ingredients used in Japanese dishes, how to set a Japanese table, and how to eat with chopsticks.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An important addition to any multicultural collection, this title examines the internment of enemy aliens in the United States and Canada during the Second World War. With particular emphasis on yellow peril and the plight of Japanese-American and Canadian citizens, the book reveals the events, mindsets, and policies leading up to and following the forced removal of thousands of citizens from their homes into internment camps. Using primary sources...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt middle-grade novel about ex-best friends, betrayals, and revenge that is best served sour. Revenge is sweet! For as long as she can remember, Mai has spent every summer in Mystic, Connecticut visiting family friends. And hanging out with her best-friend-since-birth, Zach Koyama, was always the best part. Then two summers ago everything changed. Zach humiliated Mai, proving he wasn’t a friend at all. So when Zach’s family moved to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents true accounts of children forced to live in Japanese American confinement camps. Personal narratives, informative infographics, and historical photos make this title a compelling and thought-provoking read for young history lovers.
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.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist. Drawing from memory is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist and the man he came to love as...
11) Hiroshima dreams
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Lin O'Neil, a talented but shy girl growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, develops a close relationship with her Japanese grandmother, who shares Lin's gift of precognition.
12) Music for Alice
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A Japanese American farmer recounts her agricultural successes and setbacks and her enduring love of dance. Based on the true life story of Alice Sumida, who with her husband Mark, established the largest gladiola bulb farm in the country during the last half of the twentieth century.
13) Dash
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.
14) Kira-kira
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Keiko, Audrey, and Jenna have always been best friends, and Keiko desperately wants it to stay that way, but now they are starting seventh grade, and everything seems to be changing; Audrey is obsessed with the idea of them all securing boyfriends, but when she and Jenna focus on the same boy their friendship starts to break apart--and then Keiko finds herself attracted to Audrey's brother, Conner (who has generally been cast as the enemy), and suddenly...
Author
Series
Momotaro (Margaret Dilloway) volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"To rid himself of nightmares, twelve-year-old Xander summons the baku, a mythical creature that eats dreams, but he goes too far and jeopardizes all his dreams as well as the dreams of his family and friends"--
17) 1001 cranes
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
Author
Series
Momotaro (Margaret Dilloway) volume 1
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Xander discovers and learns to use the fantastic powers that are his birthright in order to save his father. Based on Japanese mythology.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
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