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c1993., Juvenile, Lee & Low Call No: E MOC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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2022., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F INO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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By Okubo, Miné2014., University of Washington Press Call No: 940.54 OKU Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens--who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, illuminates this experience with poignant illustrations and witty, candid text. Now available with a new introduction by Christine Hong and in a wide-format artist edition, this graphic novel can reach a new generation of readers and scholars. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh--and if he is an American too--blush." "A remarkably objective and vivid and even humorous account. In dramatic and detailed drawings and brief text, she documents the whole episode. all that she saw, objectively, yet with a warmth of understanding." -New York Times Book Review"--
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2006., Adolescent, Scholastic Call No: 940.53 OPP Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the early 1940s, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American children and teens when war broke out in December of 1941. The story of what happened to these American citizens is told through letters that her young friends wrote to Miss Breed during their internment. This librarian and humanitarian served as a lifeline to these imprisoned young people, and was brave enough to speak out against a shameful chapter in American history.
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-- Story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II[2019]., Juvenile, Margaret Ferguson Books : Holiday House Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Provides an illustrated biography discussing the life and career of former U.S. congressman Norman Mineta. Describes how ten-year-old Norman and his family were interned at Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, and how his experiences there gave him a spirit of public service. Details how he became the first Asian mayor of a major city then served ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives where he was instrumental in passing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Chronicles the history of Asian immigration to put the internment into historical context, and explores the lasting legacy of the government's policy of imprisoning Japanese immigrants. Includes black-and-white photographs throughout.
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2019., Adolescent, Disney Hyperion Books Call No: GN FAU Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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[2005]., Pre-adolescent, Heyday Books Call No: HISTORICAL F UCH Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HISTORICAL F FAU Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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2023., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: 741.5 973 Edition: First Atheneum Books for Young Readers paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: 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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2016., General, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: Historical Fiction SEP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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2016., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: HISTORICAL F SEP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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-- Sylvia and Aki2013., Pre-adolescent, Yearling Call No: HISTORICAL F CON Edition: First Yearling edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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2004., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: HISTORICAL F PAT Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view Summary Note: When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.
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2023., Adolescent, Abrams ComicArts Call No: GN HISTORICAL TUI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Marco Calvo always knew his grandfather, affectionately called Papoo, was a good man. He was named after him, after all. A first-generation Jewish immigrant, Papoo was hard-working, smart, and caring. When Papoo peacefully passes away, he expected the funeral to be simple. However, he is caught off guard by something unusual. Among his close family and friends are mourners he doesn't recognize-Japanese-American families-and no one is quite sure who they are or why they are at the service. How did these strangers know his grandfather so well? Set in the multicultural Central District of Seattle during World War II and inspired by author Josh Tuininga's family experiences, Don't Let Us Down explores a unique situation of Japanese and Jewish Americans living side by side in a country at war. Following Marco's grandfather's perspective, we learn of his life as a Sephardic Jewish immigrant living in America and his struggles as he settles into an America gearing up its war efforts. Despite the war raging just outside America's borders, Papoo befriends Sam Akiyama, a Japanese man who finds his world upended from President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066. Determined to keep Sam's business afloat while he and his family are unjustly incarcerated, Papoo creates a plan that not only changes the lives of the Akiyamas, but of the entire Nihonmachi community. An evocative and beautifully illustrated historical fiction graphic novel revealing the truth of one man's extraordinary efforts, Don't Let Us Down converges two perspectives into a single portrait of a community's struggle with race, responsibility, and what it truly means to be an American"--Provided by publisher.
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2009., Pre-adolescent, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: HISTORICAL F KAD Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.