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43) The deep sky
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind--except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation...
47) Hard rain
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
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.
49) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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...
51) No-no boy
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In the aftermath of World War II, Ichiro, a Japanese American, returns home to Seattle to make a new start after two years in an internment camp and two years in prison for refusing to be drafted.
52) 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.
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...
54) Time of fear
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas, one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America. It explores the reactions of the native Arkansans who watched in bewilderment as their tiny towns were overwhelmed by this huge influx of outsiders. Through interviews with the internees...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale--being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts' business--she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her cousins were named after Disney characters), and with her biracial background, amazing judo skills and red-hot temper, she doesn't quite fit the princess mold. All that changes the instant she locks eyes with...
56) Blood hina
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this fourth installment of Naomi Hirahara's highly acclaimed "Mas Arai" mystery series, Mas' best friend Haruo is getting married and Mas has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But then an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiancee goes missing, and the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To clear his friend's name, Mas must first uncover a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Caldecott Award Winners
One World, Many Stories, 3rd - 5th
Author Birthdays - August
Caldecott Award Winners
One World, Many Stories, 3rd - 5th
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A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 5
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With more than 130,000 copies sold, this award-winning chapter-book series starring a spunky Japanese American heroine returns with four new standalone books set on a family vacation in Japan! Toothbrush? Check. Her special journal? Check! Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi―flamingo fan, tree climber, and top-notch messmaker―can hardly wait for her family vacation to Japan, and by the time their plane finally touches down, she’s ready to dive...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle… Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it’s still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate.
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