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• Farewell to Manzanar

  a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Incarceration

  Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki,

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  Nonfiction For ages 08-14, In this moving memoir, Jeanne Wakatsuki recalls coming of age in Manzanar, a bleak, dusty settlement behind barbed wire. She tells of her family's struggle to adjust to life in cramped barracks, fearful and searching for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Can We Go Back to America?

  Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II

  Kamei, Susan H.,

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  Nonfiction for ages 13 and up, After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States government forcibly removed more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast and imprisoned them in desolate detention camps until the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Displacement

  Hughes, Kiku,

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  Graphic novel for ages 12-18, Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weedflower

  Kadohata, Cynthia

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  Fiction for ages 10 to 14, -When Pearl Harbor is attacked, the lives of a Japanese-American girl and her family are thrown into chaos. Sumiko, 12, and her younger brother, Tak-Tak, live with their aunt and uncle, grandfather Jiichan, and adult…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seen and Unseen

  What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

  Partridge, Elizabeth,

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  Nonfiction for ages 10 to 14, Art reflects the harsh realities of life in this emotional look at the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, filtered through the lenses of three very different photographers. After the attack on Pearl…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not Free

  Chee, Traci,

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  Fiction for ages 12 and up, 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stubborn Twig

  Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family

  Kessler, Lauren

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  Nonfiction for adults, In 1903, Masuo Yasui came to America and eventually became a successful orchardist and father of eight children. But the "relocation" of Japanese Americans during World War II caused Yasui to take his own life. The Yasui…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

  a Novel

  Ford, Jamie

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  Fiction for adults, In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snow Falling on Cedars

  Guterson, David,

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  Fiction for adults, San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 2009 Interview with Jim Tsugawa

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  Jim Tsugawa is a native Oregonian of Japanese descent who was interned during World War 2 in an internment camp with his family. He went on to become a dentist and settle in Portland. In February and March of 2009, local immigrants or descendants of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Baseball Saved Us

  Mochizuki, Ken, 1954-

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  Picture book for ages 4 to 8, During World War II, a young Japanese-American boy and his family are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Despondent in their desolate surroundings, father and son pull the camp together to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp

  Denenberg, Barry

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  Fiction for ages 10 to 14, 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.