United States:
Japanese Amreicans
- Wolff, Virginia Euwer.
Bat 6
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls
recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's
bigotry comes to the surface.
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- Davis, Daniel S.
Behind
barbed wire : the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II
Discusses the forced internment of Japanese Americans in camps following
the attack on Pearl Harbor, their way of life there, and their eventual
assimilation into society following the war.
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- Uchida, Yoshiko.
The best
bad thing
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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- Werlin, Nancy.
Black
mirror : a novel
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide,
sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious
student activities at her boarding school.
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- Say, Allen.
Grandfather's
journey
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.
Educ. Res. PS 3569 .A9 G7 1993
- Stanley, Jerry, 1941-
I
am an American : a true story of Japanese internment
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- Blumberg, Rhoda.
Shipwrecked!
: the true adventures of a Japanese boy
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves
him and his four companions castaways on a remote island,
fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and
customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United
States.
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- Say, Allen.
Tea with milk
After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with
her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place.
Educ. Res. PS 3569 .A9 T4 1999
- Salisbury, Graham.
Under
the blood-red sun
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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