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[2020], Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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[2020]., Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: HISTORICAL F SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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1988., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: Picture Book FIC TSU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts how three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of the war, focusing on the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve them.
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2018., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Historical Fiction FIC GRA Edition: First edition. Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 change his life forever.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F GRA Edition: First edition. Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 change his life forever.
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By Mazer, Harryc2005., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Historical Fiction Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: To honor his father who died during the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa.
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By Mazer, Harry2005., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: To honor his father who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa.
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By Mazer, Harry2005., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc., by arrangement with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: To honor his father who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa. Sequel to A Boy at war; this is the third book in the series.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Wendy Lamb Books Call No: HISTORICAL F NAP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Caught in Japan and separated from their father when World War II begins, Italian sisters Simona, thirteen, and Carolina, ten, embark on a trying journey hoping to reach safety. Includes historical notes.
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2017., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: GN 973.7 HALE Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Nathan Hale's hazardous tales Volume: 7.Summary Note: On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. A new generation of pilots were recruited to fly bombing missions for the United States, and from that group, volunteers were requested for a dangerous secret assignment. For the first time in American history, Army bombers would be launched from an aircraft carrier. Once at sea, they were told their mission was a retaliation strike against targets in Tokyo. But on the day of the raid, a Japanese patrol boat spotted them and they had to launch early, with barely enough fuel to get them past their target.
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-- Raid of no return.2017., Juvenile, Amulet Books Call No: GN 940.54 HAL Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Volume: 7Summary Note: On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. A new generation of pilots were recruited to fly bombing missions for the United States, and from that group, volunteers were requested for a dangerous secret assignment. For the first time in American history, Army bombers would be launched from an aircraft carrier.
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[2021]., Juvenile, Delacorte Press Call No: HISTORICAL F KUZ Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.
