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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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c2021., Primary, Red Chair Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Look! books (Red Chair Press).Summary Note: Readers will learn Daniel Inouye was born in Hawaii to parents who came from Japan.
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2015., W.W. Norton & Company Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes how Japan sent five girls, raised in traditional samurai households, to be educated in the United States in 1871 in order to return to Japan and raise a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Follows three of these young women as they grow up in San Francisco, learn English and Western customs, forge friendships, and then return to Japan ten years later with a goal of promoting women's education. Draws on archival research in both countries, and decades of letters between the women and their American host families.
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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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[2019]., Juvenile, Holiday House Call No: B MIN Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
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2019., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: B FUJ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During World War II, Gyo s family was forced to abandon everything and were taken to an internment camp in Arkansas. Far away from home and from her family, Gyo worked as an illustrator in New York while her innocent family was imprisoned. Seeing the diversity around her and feeling pangs from her own childhood, Gyo became determined to show all types of children white, black, Asian, girl, boy, immigrant in her books for children.
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Pre-adolescent Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Our camp, they tell us, is now to be called a 'relocation center' and not a 'concentration camp.' We are internees, not prisoners. Here's the truth: I am now a non-alien, stripped of my constitutional rights. I am a prisoner in a concentration camp in my own country. I sleep on a canvas cot under which is a suitcase with my life's belongings: a change of clothes, underwear, a notebook and pencil. Why?"--Kiyo Sato In 1941 Kiyo Sato and her eight younger siblings lived with their parents on a small farm near Sacramento, California, where they grew strawberries, nuts, and other crops. Kiyo had started college the year before when she was eighteen, and her eldest brother, Seiji, would soon join the US Army. The younger children attended school and worked on the farm after class and on Saturday. On Sunday, they went to church. The Satos were an ordinary American family. Until they weren't. On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, US president Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan and the United States officially entered World War II. Soon after, in February and March 1942, Roosevelt signed two executive orders which paved the way for the military to round up all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast and incarcerate them in isolated internment camps for the duration of the war. Kiyo and her family were among the nearly 120,000 internees. In this moving account, Sato and Goldsmith tell the story of the internment years, describing why the internment happened and how it impacted Kiyo and her family. They also discuss the ways in which Kiyo has used her experience to educate other Americans about their history, to promote inclusion, and to fight against similar injustices. Hers is a powerful, relevant, and inspiring story to tell on the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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c199800, Juvenile, Child's World Call No: 921 Yam Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the young ice skater who won the gold medal in women's figure skating in the 1992 Olympics.
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[2019]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: LANGUAGE NF TAK Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and the impact the experience had on his later life.
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-- Louis ZamperiniBy Doeden, Matt[2018], Juvenile, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During World War II, Louis Zamperini survived a plane crash, 46 days stranded on a life raft at sea, and two years in a prisoner-of-war camp. Discover how his strong will and positive attitude helped him survive against all odds.
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-- Louis ZamperiniBy Doeden, Mattc2019., Pre-adolescent, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Alternator books.Summary Note: Readers discover how Louis Zamperini's strong will and positive attitude helped him survive against all odds.
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[2019]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: GN-HISTORY THE Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and the impact the experience had on his later life.
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[2019]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: GN B TAK Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps, as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love." --
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[2019]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: GN TAK Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and the impact the experience had on his later life.
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[2019]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: GN B Takei Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Japanese American actor and gay activist George Takei offer a graphic memoir describing his years as a child in Japanese internment camps during World War II and how they impacted him, his parents, and the country.
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[2018], Primary, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII--the only enemy ever to do so--and comes back 20 years later to apologize.
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2016., Scribner Call No: B 920 Rus Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the history of Crystal City, the only family internment camp set up by the U.S. government during World War II, which served as a prisoner exchange junction--German, Japanese, Italian immigrants and their American-born child citizens deemed less important than American POWs in Japan or Germany were traded, in the hopes that they could return once the war was over.
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c2010., Random House Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber 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--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
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-- World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemptionc2010., Random House Call No: B Edition: 1st edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber 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--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
