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World War II novels volume 4
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English
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A fictional account of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island.
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and courage: the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated in camps back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights, even if it meant imprisonment. They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese...
3) Kira-kira
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Relates the story of eight American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima during World War II, one of whom was rescued and later became president of the United States, and the other seven who were captured by Japanese troops.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
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Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the experiences of Japanese American children who were moved with their families to relocation centers during World War II, looking at school, meals, sports, and other aspects of camp life.
8) Newsweek
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Language
English
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Newsweek magazine has a long-standing tradition of providing readers with the most updated information on the most pressing issues affecting our nation and world today. Newsweek is able to fill the gaps when a story has passed and is able to come up with insight or synthesis that connects the cracking, confusing digitals dots in today's fast paced news cycle.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
11) Sylvia and Aki
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Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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"Describes the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as Japanese forces surprised Americans at the U.S. military base, and explains the significance of the attack today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a Japanese pilot, a U.S. sailor, and an American nurse"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The chilling World War II memoir of Marine Sergeant Charles Jackson describes the fierce battle for Corregidor, his capture in 1942 by the Japanese, and his horrifying three-year ordeal in a POW camp as a prisoner of the Japanese.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Louise keeps a scrapbook detailing the events in her life after her best friend, a Japanese-American girl, and her family are sent to a relocation camp during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"'Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II--an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relations and the Japanese experience in America. After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara--all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest--moved...
17) The Eagle and the Rising Sun: the Japanese-American war, 1941-1943, Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir about a daughter trying to understand her father's genius, mental illness, violence, and past. Touches on Japanese culture, immigration, racism, WWII, and the Asian American experience"--
20) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
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