Search Results for Japanese Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Laura's victory : end of the second World War

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Jones, Veda Boyd.
c2006.
As World War II draws to a close, Laura comes to admire her Japanese American neighbor whose father is fighting for the U.S. Army in Europe, but will she be strong enough to defend her new friend from the persecution of schoolmates?
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The best bad thing [videorecording].

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

1997.
At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen.
Videocassette
JLC Title 245h [videorecording].

The happiest ending

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uchida, Yoshiko.
1985.
1st ed.
When twelve-year-old Rinko learns that a neighbor's daughter is coming from Japan to marry a stranger twice her age, she sets out to change this arrangement and gains new insights into love and adult problems.
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Journey home

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uchida, Yoshiko.
1978.
1st ed.
A Japanese American family return to their ordinary life after being relocated during World War II. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
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The favorite daughter

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Say, Allen.
2013.
1st ed.
Yuriko, teased at school for her unusual name and Japanese ancestry, yearns to be more ordinary until her father reminds her of how special she is.
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Samurai of Gold Hill.

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uchida, Yoshiko.
[1972]
Seeking a new life in nineteenth-century California with his samurai father, a young Japanese finds it difficult to adjust to the idea of being a farmer and not a samurai.
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1001 cranes

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Hirahara, Naomi,
c2008.
1st ed.
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.
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So far from the sea

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Bunting, Eve,
1998.
When seven-year-old Laura and her family visit Grandfather's grave at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, the Japanese American child leaves behind a special symbol.
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Keep it together, Keiko Carter

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
[2021]
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 she finds herself having to choose between the two.
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Gigi and Ojiji : food for thought

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Iwai, Melissa,
[2023]
First edition.
"Gigi tries natto, a traditional Japanese food. But will she like it as much as peanut butter?"--Back cover.
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Akiko and the journey to Toog

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark,
[2003]
Akiko, Mr. Beeba, Spuckler, and Gax journey to Toog to help their friend Poog save his planet from destruction--whether he likes it or not.
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Akiko on the planet Smoo

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark,
[2000]
Ten-year-old Akiko has an unexpected adventure when she is whisked away to a distant planet and put in charge of the rescue mission that must search for the kidnapped Prince Froptoppit.
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Akiko : the training master

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark,
[2005]
Fifth-grader Akiko renews her acquaintance with her friends from the planet Smoo when they whisk her away to the Zarga Baffa Training Camp, where she must deal with mud, misery, and a training master who is out to get her.
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I love you so mochi

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kuhn, Sarah (Author),
2019.
First edition.
Kimi Nakamura loves fashion, and designing clothes, jewelry, and accessories for her friends, but her mother, a professional graphic designer with a long list of clients, wants her to be a serious artist, and is furious when she discovers Kimi has dropped her fine arts class; so Kimi is relieved to be able to visit her normally estranged grandparents in Kyoto during spring break--but what begins as an escape becomes a way to learn about her mother and her Japanese heritage, and to figure out how to move forward with her own life.
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Keep it together, Keiko Carter

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2020.
First edition.
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 she finds herself having to choose between the two.
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Akiko and the Alpha Centauri 5000

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark,
[2003]
Akiko's spaceship race from one side of the galaxy to the other is complicated when Spuckler discovers that an old rival of his is also competing.
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Just be cool, Jenna Sakai

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2021.
First edition.
When boyfriend Elliott breaks up with Jenna Sakai before Christmas break, she just about convinces herself that relationships are for suckers and she is better off without them; but unfortunately she finds herself in competition with Elliott for a journalism scholarship, and worse, her first assignment for the newspaper club is to write a personal essay, which is difficult when you are someone who prefers to keep your emotions bottled up--and then there is Rin Watanabe, a boy as stubborn as Jenna herself, and a mystery that Jenna cannot help but investigate.
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Tokyo ever after

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Jean, Emiko,
2021.
First edition.
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverent eighteen-year-old from northern California.
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Tessa Miyata is no hero

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Abe, Julie,
2023.
FIrst edition.
"Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back home. Her hopes are quickly dashed when, all too soon, she realizes that life in Japan is just like being in California: her sisters are old enough to go into Tokyo, while she can’t even go to the corner store by herself. Plus, her grandparents want her to stay home with the neighbor kid, thirteen-year-old Jin Uehara, who’s made it clear he’s too cool to spend time with a weirdo like her. When Tessa is finally allowed to go to Tokyo, it’s only to join her grandpa’s retiree aerobic class with none other than Jin. Their disastrous forced hang out comes crashing to a halt when Tessa and Jin break the Miyata family’s precious heirloom—accidentally releasing the malicious samurai god Taira Masakado and discovering a hidden part of the city where gods and mythological creatures walk among humans—including their new companion, a mythical nine-tailed fox who may be more trouble than he is help. Despite doing everything to avoid spending another minute together, Tessa and Jin must now work together to stop Taira Masakado before he traps them—and the rest of Tokyo—under his command, forever. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Graci Kim, this brand new fantasy adventure will grip readers from the very first page and never let go" --
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The mystery of the masked medalist

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Shibutani, Maia,
2020.
Accompanying their journalist parents to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, twelve-year-old Andy Kudo and his eleven-year-old sister Mika find themselves immersed in an augmented reality game developed by a former Olympic medalist, that brings players together from all over the world to search Tokyo for virtual medals and clues to the secretive creator's identity.
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Ink and ashes

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Maetani, Valynne E.,
[2015]
First edition.
Claire Takata has never known much about her father, who passed away ten years ago. But on the anniversary of his death, she finds a letter from her deceased father to her stepfather. Before now, Claire never had a reason to believe they even knew each other. Struggling to understand why her parents kept this surprising history hidden, Claire combs through anything that might give her information about her father...until she discovers that he was a member of the yakuza, a Japanese organized crime syndicate. The discovery opens a door that should have been left closed. The race to outrun her father's legacy reveals secrets of his past that cast ominous shadows, threatening Claire, her friends and family, her newfound love, and ultimately her life. Winner of Tu Books New Visions Award, Ink and Ashes is a fascinating debut novel packed with romance, intrigue, and heart-stopping action. --
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Gigi and Ojiji

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Iwai, Melissa,
[2022]
First edition.
"Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji - her Japanese grandpa - to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji? This exciting new I Can Read series is brought to you by author-illustrator Melissa Iwai, whose popular books include Soup Day and Dumplings for Lili." --
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Baseball saved us

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Mochizuki, Ken,
1993.
First edition.
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
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This time will be different

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Sugiura, Misa,
[2019]
First edition.
"Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. 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. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her mom decides to sell the shop -- to the family who swindled CJ's grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ's family, friends, and their entire Northern California community; and for the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for." --
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We are not free

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Chee, Traci,
[2020]
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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Love in the library

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Tokuda-Hall, Maggie,
2022.
First edition.
"To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren't human--that was miraculous. 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 light, love and fairness. And she isn't the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Beautifully illustrated and complete with an afterword, back matter, and a photo of the real Tama and George--the author's grandparents--Maggie Tokuda-Hall's elegant love story for readers of all ages sheds light on a shameful chapter of American history."-- Provided by publisher.
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The best bad thing

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uchida, Yoshiko.
1983.
At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen. Sequel to "A Jar of Dreams."
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Into the clouds

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Gates, Margo,
[2020]
"Join Marie and her mother as they soar above the clouds in this charming story featuring vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text appropriate for emergent readers"--
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Akiko. Flights of fancy

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark.
2007.
High-flying expanded ed.
A selection of bonus features, pin-ups, comic strips, and gags from the back pages of issues one through thirty-nine of Mark Crilley's "Akiko" comic books.
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Fish for Jimmy : inspired by one family's experience in a Japanese American internment camp

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Yamasaki, Katie.
c2013.
1st ed.
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.
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Dust of Eden

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Nagai, Mariko,
2014.
"Thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and are relocated to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years"--
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Gaijin : American prisoner of war : a graphic novel

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Faulkner, Matt.
[2014]
First edition.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, a thirteen-year-old California boy who is half Japanese is sent to an internment camp. Story based on the history of the author's great-aunt.
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Baseball saved us

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Mochizuki, Ken,
c1993,
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
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Paper wishes

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Sepahban, Lois,
2016.
First edition.
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
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A boy of Heart Mountain [spoken word]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Bazaldua, Barbara.
p2015.
Unabridged.
At the onset of World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in concentration camps. Inspired by Shigeru Yabu's youthful camp experiences, this is a poignant coming-of-age story and a celebration of the human spirit under duress.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Best friends forever : a World War II scrapbook

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Patt, Beverly.
c2010.
1st ed.
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.
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The fences between us : Seattle, Washington, 1941 : the diary of Piper Davis

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Larson, Kirby.
?2010.
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
CD

The journal of Ben Uchida, citizen #13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Denenberg, Barry.
1999.
1st ed.
Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
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A place where sunflowers grow = Sabaku ni saita himawari

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Lee-Tai, Amy,
[2006]
While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.
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Title (vernacular script) A place where sunflowers grow = ?????????? / story, Amy Lee-Tai ; illustrations, Felicia Hoshino ; [Japanese translation, Marc Akio Lee].

Weedflower

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kadohata, Cynthia.
©2006.
1st ed.
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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When the cousins came

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Yamasaki, Katie,
[2018]
First edition.
Even though Lila's cousins do some things differently, Lila loves when they come to visit.
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My nest of silence

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Faulkner, Matt,
[2022]
First edition.
A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
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Eyes of the emperor

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Salisbury, Graham.
2014.
First Ember edition.
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
Other

Butterflies for Kiri

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Falwell, Cathryn.
©2003.
1st ed.
Kiri, a Japanese American girl who loves to draw and paint, tries to use the origami set she received for her birthday. Includes instructions for making an origami butterfly.
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Under the blood-red sun

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Salisbury, Graham.
c1995.
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
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A jar of dreams

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uchida, Yoshiko.
1981.
1st ed.
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
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Momo Arashima steals the sword of the wind

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Sugiura, Misa,
[2023]
First edition.
All Momo wants for her twelfth birthay is an ordinary life, but instead she finds out she is half human, half goddess and must unlock her divine powers to save her mother's life and keep countless evil spirits from escaping Yomi, the land of the dead.
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Sachiko means happiness

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Sakai, Kimiko.
©1990.
Although at first five-year-old Sachiko is upset when her grandmother no longer recognizes her, she grows to understand that they can still be happy together.
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Take what you can carry

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Pyle, Kevin C.
2012.
1st ed.
Although two boys grow up in vastly different times and locations, their lives intersect in more ways than one as they discover compassion, develop loyalty, and find renewal in the most surprising of places.
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Ghosts for breakfast

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Terasaki, Stanley Todd.
©2002.
1st ed.
One night, a young boy and his father investigate their frightened neighbors' report of ghosts on a nearby farm.
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Eyes of the emperor

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Salisbury, Graham.
2005.
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
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Practice makes perfect

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Wells, Rosemary.
c2002.
1st ed.
Yoko helps Timothy learn to play the bells of Sarna so that he can perform a solo in the school talent show.
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Kira-kira [sound recording]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kadohata, Cynthia.
p2005.
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. kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Akiko and the missing Misp

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark.
c2008.
1st ed.
Sixth-grader Akiko makes another visit to the planet Smoo, but on the way she passes through a time warp that sends her back twenty-five years.
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Dream, Annie, dream

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Brown, Waka T.,
[2022]
"In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play. So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, she's thrilled ... until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it's an Asian play with Asian characters. Is this all people see when they see her? Is this the only kind of success they'll let her have -- one that they can tear down or use race to belittle? Disheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what she's made of. Waka T. Brown, author of While I Was Away, delivers an uplifting coming-of-age story about a Japanese American girl's fight to make space for herself in a world that claims to celebrate everyone's differences but doesn't always follow through."--
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Under the blood-red sun

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Salisbury, Graham.
[2008].
[Paw Prints ed.]
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
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Yoko's show-and-tell

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Wells, Rosemary.
c2011.
1st ed.
For the traditional Japanese celebration of Girls' Day, Yoko receives a special gift from her grandparents in Japan: a doll named Miki that has been passed down through her family for generations. Yoko is so excited to share Miki with the class that she disobeys her mother, who tells her, "Miki is too delicate to take to school."
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East wind, rain

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Paul, Caroline.
c2006.
1st ed.
When Tokan's wife has an affair with an American naval officer, Tokan castrates him and disappears into the Hawaiian jungle in the autumn of 1941.
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Akiko on the planet Smoo

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark.
2001.
Ten-year-old Akiko has an unexpected adventure when she is whisked away to a distant planet and put in charge of the rescue mission that must search for the kidnapped Prince Froptoppit.
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The mystery in Manhattan

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Shibutani, Maia,
2021.
When the Kudo siblings visit New York City, their sightseeing plans are interrupted when a very special dress, the centerpiece of their aunt's fashion collection, goes missing, and Alex and Mika embark on a chase around the city to find it.
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Read me a story

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Wells, Rosemary.
c2002.
1st ed.
Yoko pretends she cannot read because she thinks that if her mother finds out she can, no one will read her a bedtime story.
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Dad bakes

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Yamasaki, Katie,
[2021]
First edition.
Dad rises before the sun, goes to work at the bakery where he kneads, rolls, and bakes bread, and as the world starts its day, Dad heads home to his young daughter where they play, read, and bake together.
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Roo the rabbit

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
[2021]
"A new foster pet, someBUNNY special, has arrived at the Takano house, and eight-year-old Kaita is over the moon! But Roo isn't lick-your-face friendly like the dogs Kaita's used to fostering, and she soon wonders if she'll ever be able to break the ice and find the skittish mini lop a forever home"--
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Grandfather's journey

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Say, Allen,
[2013]
20th anniversary edition.
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.
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Yoko finds her way

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Wells, Rosemary.
2014
First edition.
When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.
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The turn of the tide

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Parry, Rosanne,
[2016]
First edition.
After a devastating tsunami in Japan, cousins Jet and Kai spend the summer together in Astoria, Oregon, training for the Young's Bay Treasure Island Race and become close friends in the process.
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Red berries, white clouds, blue sky

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Dallas, Sandra.
[2014]
"After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado"--
Other

Yoko's paper cranes

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Wells, Rosemary.
©2001.
1st ed.
When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.
Regular print

Jasmine Toguchi, peace-maker

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2023.
First edition.
Eight-year-old Jasmine travels to Hiroshima to visit her grandmother and cousin. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make an origami dove.
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Jasmine Toguchi, great gardener

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2023.
First edition.
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.
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Brave explorer

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2022.
First edition.
Eight-year-old Jasmine is enthusiastic about her family's vacation to Japan, but once in Tokyo she is distracted by her older sister's grumpiness and her own blunders--will she be able to cheer up her sister while finding her own footing? Includes author's note and recipe.
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The bracelet

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uchida, Yoshiko.
c1993.
Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship.
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A boy named Isamu : a story of Isamu Noguchi

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Yang, James,
2021.
Imagines a day in the boyhood of Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi, while wandering through an outdoor market, through the forest, and then by the ocean, seeing things Isamu sees through the eyes of a young artist.
Book

This is how I roll

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
[2023]
First edition.
"Susannah Mikami dreams of becoming a famous sushi chef like her dad. And this summer, she plans to learn everything about his traditional kitchen. Only he refuses to teach her, and won't tell her why. Is it because he doesn't want her to embarrass him in front of the documentary crew filming at his restaurant? Or worse, because she's a girl? Either way, Sana decides he's not the only one who can keep secrets. So when she meets Koji, a cute boy who wants to help her cook up some trouble in the kitchen -- and film online tutorials to show the world her mad skills -- Sana is all in. But sneaking around means lying to her parents, something Sana's never done before. Can she take the heat, or will she get out of the kitchen for good?"--
Book

Grandfather's journey

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Say, Allen.
c2008.
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.
CD
JLC Title 245h

Kingston the Great Dane

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2021.
"What do you do with a gentle Great Dane who's the size of a cow but acts like he's no bigger than a mini dachshund? If you're eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her animal-fostering family, you shower the dog with love and do everything you can to find him a forever home"--
Book

Akiko : pieces of Gax

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark.
c2006.
1st ed.
Sixth-grader Akiko and her friends from the planet Smoo travel to the upside-down city of Gollarondo where an accident befalls Gax the robot and a search begins for all his missing pieces.
Book

Jasmine Toguchi, flamingo keeper

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2018.
First edition.
Jasmine makes a wish for a pet flamingo on the special daruma doll her grandmother sent from Japan, then sets out to prove herself responsible enough for a pet.
Book

The karate kid

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Gyllenhaal, Rebecca,
[2019]
"Wax on or wax off! The classic movie you know and love is now on illustrated storybook for the whole family! When young Daniel is targeted by bullies, his neighbor Mr. Miyagi agrees to train him for the upcoming karate tournament. But why is Mr. Miyagi making Daniel wax his cars, sand his deck, and paint his house? Will Daniel ever master the art of karate?"--
Book

The very unfortunate wish of Melony Yoshimura

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Brown, Waka T.,
[2023]
First edition.
In this modern-day retelling of the Japanese folktale The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku, twelve-year-old Melony befriends a wish-granting demon who encourages her to rebel against her overprotective parents, all while using her for his own evil scheme.
Book

Yoko learns to read

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Wells, Rosemary.
c2012.
1st ed.
Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree.
Book

Kira-Kira

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kadohata, Cynthia.
c2004.
1st ed.
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.
Book

The war outside [Go Reader]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Hesse, Monica,
[2018]
Unabridged.
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Sound recording
JLC Title 245h [Go Reader]

Jasmine Toguchi, mochi queen

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2017.
First edition.
Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.
Book

Kira-kira [spoken word]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kira-kira [sound recording]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kadohata, Cynthia.
p2005.
Unabridged.
Katie Takeshima, a Japanese American girl growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, is cheered by the optimism of her sister and best friend Lynn, but when Lynn becomes very ill, Katie struggles to find a way to keep her hopeful spirit alive within the family.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Mismatch

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Namioka, Lensey.
©2006.
Their families clash when a Japanese-American teenaged boy starts dating a Chinese-American teenaged girl.
Book

Yoko writes her name

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Wells, Rosemary.
c2008.
1st ed.
Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their names using Japanese calligraphy.
Book

House of the red fish

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Salisbury, Graham.
c2006.
1st ed.
Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat. 1943, one year after the end of Under the Blood-Red Sun, Tomi's Papa and Grandpa are still under arrest, and the paradise of Hawaii now lives in fear-waiting for another attack, while trying to recover from Pearl Harbor. As a Japanese American, Tomi and his family have new enemies everywhere, vigilantes who suspect all Japanese. Tomi finds hope in his goal of raising Papa's fishing boat, sunk in the canal by the Army on the day of the attack. To Tomi, raising Papa's boat is a sign of faith that Papa and Grandpa will return. It's an impossible task, but Tomi is determined. For just as he now has new enemies, his struggle to raise the boat brings unexpected allies and friends.
Book

The mochi makers

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Fujimoto-Johnson, Sharon,
[2024]
First edition.
A girl and her grandmother spend the day making mochi together in this gentle and joyous celebration of family, tradition, and the memories that matter most. Includes information on mochi and a recipe.
Regular print

Brave explorer [audio-enabled book]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
[2023]
First edition.
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 into their new adventure. There are so many things to see in Tokyo: Ramen Street, which she learns is not a whole street made of ramen; old temples with fancy gates; and Tokyo Tower, where you can even spot Mount Fuji on a good day. But when they arrive, Jasmine finds herself unable to get away from her older sister Sophie's crabby attitude. Plus there's so much about Japan she didn't know, and she seems to be getting in trouble right and left. Will Jasmine be able to cheer up her sister AND find her footing in a new country?
Other
JLC Title 245h [audio-enabled book]

The thing about luck

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kadohata, Cynthia.
c2013.
1st ed.
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.
Book

Jasmine Toguchi, bridge builder

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2023.
First edition.
When Jasmine and family visit Kabo, the Japanese village where her grandmother grew up, she is homesick and angry with her older sister for not playing with her, but when they start to compromise, they discover ways to bridge their differences. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make a folding fan.
Book

Akiko in the Castle of Alia Rellapor

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark,
[2001]
Akiko and her friends reach the final stage of their mission to rescue Prince Froptoppit from the Castle of Alia Rellapor.
Book

Tokyo dreaming

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Jean, Emiko,
2022.
First U.S. edition.
When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
Book

The fences between us : the diary of Piper Davis

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Larson, Kirby.
2010.
1st ed.
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
Book

Suki's kimono

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uegaki, Chieri.
c2003.
Book

The war outside [kit]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Hesse, Monica,
[2019]
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Book
JLC Title 245h [kit]

Tomoko takes the lead

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Rosewater, Kit,
2021.
When they get lost in a strange city during roller derby camp, the Daredevils lose their confidence and their ability to work as a team, but shy Tomoko's wilderness skills and navigational know-how help them escape the urban jungle.
Book

Akiko in the Sprubly Islands

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark,
[2000]
Ten-year-old Akiko and her newly made friends survive a skugbits storm, crash in the Moonguzzit Sea, and are captured by the army of Queen Pwip as they continue their mission to rescue the son of the king of the planet Smoo.
Book

Jasmine Toguchi, drummer girl

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2018.
First edition.
Jasmine worries that she will be the only one with no talent to share in the school talent show until her mother brings out her taiko drum.
Book

Dust of Eden

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Nagai, Mariko,
2018.
Thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and are relocated to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years.
Book

Heroes [spoken word] : a novel of Pearl Harbor

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Gratz, Alan,
[2024]
December 7th, 1941: Everything explodes. That morning, Frank and Stanley are aboard the battleship the USS Utah when Japanese planes zoom overhead and begin dropping bombs on the ships below. Chaos ensues as everyone scrambles to dive for safety. Frank and Stanley realize what's happening: Japan is attacking America! The war has come to them. As the boys fight to make their way home amidst the carnage, it's clear that everything has changed. Stanley's mother is Japanese American and he is suddenly facing a terrible prejudice that he's never known before--he's now seen as the "enemy," and Frank, who's white, cannot begin to understand what Stanley will now face. Can their friendship--and their dreams--survive this watershed moment in history? Told with the immediacy, high-stakes action, and meaningful twists that have made Alan Gratz one of today's biggest authors, this gripping novel tackles themes of bravery, prejudice, and what it means to stand up for what's right. Just as Gratz's Ground Zero became a defining look at 9/11 for middle-grade readers, this book delivers a necessary and unputdownable take on a date that still lives in infamy.
Other
JLC Title 245h [spoken word] :

A growing suspicion : a Rebecca mystery

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.
[2014]
Volunteering at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the early 1900s, Jewish cousins Rebecca and Ana must find the real culprit when they are unfairly blamed for a series of mishaps in the Japanese garden.
Book

Jasmine Toguchi, super sleuth

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
2017.
First edition.
Jasmine has looked forward to spending Girls Day with her family and best friend, Linnie, but first her sister says she will not participate, and then Jasmine upsets Linnie. As her big weekend plans start to unravel, Jasmine must use her sleuthing skills to spot the clues around her-- and within herself. Then maybe, just maybe, she can put everything back in order before Girl's Day is over!
Book

Jasmine Toguchi, mochi queen [audio-enabled book]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
[2022]
[Wonderbook edition].
Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.
Other
JLC Title 245h [audio-enabled book]

Grandfather's journey

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Say, Allen.
1993.
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.
Book

Heroes

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Gratz, Alan,
2024.
First edition.
"A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee; Ground Zero; Two Degrees) is a major publishing moment. A new World War II novel from Alan Gratz? That's even bigger! Get ready for an action-packed, inventive, and powerful take on the attack on Pearl Harbor, as only Alan Gratz can tell it. December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain America, and other stars of the Golden Age of Comics. Maybe they'll even get their comic published someday.December 7th, 1941: Everything explodes.That morning, Frank and Stanley are aboard the battleship the USS Utah when Japanese planes zoom overhead and begin dropping bombs on the ships below. Chaos ensues as everyone scrambles to dive for safety. Frank and Stanley realize what's happening: Japan is attacking America! The war has come to them.As the boys fight to make their way home amidst the carnage, it's clear that everything has changed. Stanley's mother is Japanese American and he is suddenly facing a terrible prejudice that he's never known before--he's now seen as the "enemy," and Frank, who's white, cannot begin to understand what Stanley will now face. Can their friendship--and their dreams--survive this watershed moment in history? Told with the immediacy, high-stakes action, and meaningful twists that have made Alan Gratz one of today's biggest authors, this gripping novel tackles themes of bravery, prejudice, and what it means to stand up for what's right. Just as Gratz's Ground Zero became a defining look at 9/11 for middle-grade readers, this book delivers a necessary and unputdownable take on a date that still lives in infamy.Plus: The book ends with an all-original, 10-page black white comic that brings to life the comic book idea that Frank and Stanley brainstorm in the novel. The comic is written by Alan Gratz and illustrated by Judit Tondora"--
Book

Generation misfits

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Bowman, Akemi Dawn,
2021.
First edition.
An eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl joins her performing arts school's J-Pop club, where the members form an imitation band of their favorite girl group, coming together from different corners of the school to help and support one another along the way.
Book

A place to belong [sound recording]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kadohata, Cynthia,
[2019]
Unabridged.
A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing look at the aftermath of World War II
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Attack on Pearl Harbor

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Messner, Kate,
2020.
This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.
Book

Shinji Takahashi : into the heart of the storm

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kagawa, Julie,
2023.
First edition.
Thirteen-year-old Shinji and his S.E.A. cohorts travel to a forgotten island in Polynesia in search of a lost culture.
Book

A place to belong

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kadohata, Cynthia,
[2019]
First edition.
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
Book

The bark in space

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Robbins, Trina.
©2013.
Raf, Megan, and talking-dog pal Bradley are abducted by aliens from the planet Fnarf III, where dogs are in charge and people are pets, to help locate the missing Princess Zu-La.
Book

A scarf for Keiko

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Malaspina, Ann,
[2019]
In Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, in 1942, after Sam's Japanese neighbor, Keiko, is sent to an internment camp with her family, he makes a special effort to send her a gesture of friendship.
Book

From Little Tokyo, with love

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kuhn, Sarah (Author),
2021.
"As a biracial orphan, Rika has never felt like she fully belonged to her family or the Little Tokyo community in LA, until she embarks on a fairy tale-like quest to discover if America's leading movie star could be her biological mother"--
Book

Shinji Takahashi and the mark of the coatl

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Kagawa, Julie,
2022.
First edition.
To free himself from an ancient curse, thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi must team up with a secret organization of explorers, find a magical font hidden in the jungles of Mexico, and replace a stolen idol.
Book

Alice on the island : a Pearl Harbor survival story

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Poe, Mayumi Shimose,
[2019]
On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
Book

Dash

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Larson, Kirby,
2014.
First edition.
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.
Book

Music for Alice

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Say, Allen.
2004.
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.
Book

Gigi and Ojiji : perfect paper cranes

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Iwai, Melissa,
[2024]
First edition.
Gigi loves the Japan Day Festival! When Ojiji volunteers at the origami booth, Gigi can't wait to make a paper crane like Ojiji's. But folding paper is harder than it looks, and Gigi is disheartened when she sees her paper crane next to Ojiji's. Will Gigi give up or will she try her best?
Book

Sylvia & Aki

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Conkling, Winifred.
2013, ©2011.
First Yearling edition
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.
Book

Missing in action

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Hughes, Dean,
c2010.
1st ed.
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Book

Faking reality

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Fujimura, Sara,
2021.
First edition.
Sixteen-year-old reality TV star Dakota grapples with the fact that her entire life is public fodder while at the same time she is wrestling with her feelings for her best friend Leo, who is dealing with his own issues at home.
Book

Sylvia & Aki

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Conkling, Winifred.
c2011.
1st ed.
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.
Book

Mask

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Hannigan, Kate,
2020.
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
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.
Book

Four-four-two

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Hughes, Dean,
[2016]
First edition.
Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
Book

A boy no more

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Mazer, Harry.
2006.
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
Book

This light between us : a novel of World War II

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Fukuda, Andrew Xia,
2020.
First edition.
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
Book

Beneath the wide silk sky

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Inouye Huey, Emily,
2022.
First edition.
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
Book

Journey to Topaz; a story of the Japanese-American evacuation.

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uchida, Yoshiko.
[1971]
After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.
Book

While I was away

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Brown, Waka Takahashi,
2021.
When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese they speak to her, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime. In Japan, Waka struggles with reading and writing in kanji, doesn't quite mesh with her complicated and distant Obaasama, and gets made fun of by the students in her Japanese public-school classes. Even though this is the country her parents came from, Waka has never felt more like an outsider. If she's always been the "smart Japanese girl" in America but is now the "dumb foreigner" in Japan, where is home? And who will Waka be when she finds it?
Book

Journey to Topaz : a story of the Japanese-American evacuation

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Uchida, Yoshiko.
1985, ©1971.
1st pbk. ed.
In this reissue of a 1972 title, a group of Japanese colonists try to farm an arid stretch of California in 1869. After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.
Book

A boy no more

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Mazer, Harry.
c2004.
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
Book

Sweet and sour

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Florence, Debbi Michiko,
[2022]
First edition.
Eleven-year-old Mai has been contemplating revenge on her former best friend Zach ever since he humiliated her two years ago, but while spending time together for the summer, Mai has noticed a change in Zach, forcing her to decide if she can forgive him, even if she can never forget.
Book

Under the blood-red sun

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Salisbury, Graham.
c1994.
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Book

Mika : my new life

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

May, Kyla,
[2013]
Japanese American Mika is the newest member of the Lotus Lane Girls, with her very own new diary, but she is still troubled by tensions between her different friends, and worried about her project for the school newspaper.
Book

Yokattane Neddo-kun = Fortunately

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Charlip, Remy,
1997.
Kaiteiban.
Fortunately...unfortunately... Ned has a series of disasters on his way to a party but it all works out in the end.
Book
Title (vernacular script) ?????????? = Fortunately / ???????????? ;
Publication Information (vernacular script) ?? : ???, 1997.

Live in infamy

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Richmond, Caroline Tung,
2018.
First edition.
It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom--or death.
Book

The war outside

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Hesse, Monica,
[2018]
First edition.
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Book

Only love can break your heart

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Webber, Katherine,
2020.
First U. S. edition.
As often as possible high school senior Reiko Smith-Mori drives to the nearby California desert to escape from the increasingly claustrophobic life at home and her parents' expectations. There she meets Seth Rogers, a boy from school who shares her love of the desert but also wants a closer relationship with Reiko, which is just adding to her problems. Because Reiko has a secret: in her mind her older sister, Mika, who died years ago, is always with her, at home and school, and she has never allowed herself to say good-bye.
Book

Four-four-two [sound recording]

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Hughes, Dean,
?2016.
Unabridged.
Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Akiko and the Great Wall of Trudd

2024-06-02T18:04:21Z

Crilley, Mark,
[2001]
Akiko and Mr. Beeba, Spuckler, Gax, and Poog continue on their perilous journey across the planet Smoo to rescue Prince Froptoppit.
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Echo : a novel

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Ryan, Pam Muñoz,
2015.
First edition.
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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A boy no more

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Mazer, Harry.
©2004.
1st ed.
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
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Drawing from memory

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Say, Allen.
2011.
1st ed.
"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 his "spiritual father." As WWII raged, Allen was further inspired to consider questions of his own heritage and the motivations of those around him. He worked hard in rigorous drawing classes, studied, trained--and ultimately came to understand who he really is. Part memoir, part graphic novel, part narrative history, DRAWING FROM MEMORY presents a complex look at the real-life relationship between a mentor and his student. With watercolor paintings, original cartoons, vintage photographs, and maps, Allen Say has created a book that will inspire the artist in all of us"--
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Unbroken : an Olympian's journey from airman to castaway to captive

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Hillenbrand, Laura.
[2014]
First edition.
"On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary sagas of the Second World War. The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini."--Jacket.
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Unbroken : an Olympian's journey from airman to castaway to captive

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Hillenbrand, Laura,
2017.
First Ember edition.
In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history s most thrilling survival epics.
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