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On her last stop in Japan, eight-year-old Jasmine cherishes the time spent with her family, and plants a garden to ensure a lasting connection with her Obaachan even after returning home. Accompanied by drawings from Elizabet Vuković, Debbi Michiko Florence writes a beautifully heartfelt and richly humorous eighth book in the Jasmine Toguchi series. Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is now an expert on travel and doesn't want summer to end! In this...

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.

"Katsuyamas never quit, but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know how to get started. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. Hannah believes each flower has a meaning, and that with her own brand of 'flower magic,' she can help her customers achieve their heart's desire. CJ believes Hannah is full of it. But when it comes to arranging the perfect...

Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view—the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train...

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.