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.
    Educ. Res. PS 3573 .O5613 B3 1
  • 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.
    Educ. Res. D 769.8 .A6 D38 198
  • 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."
    Educ. Res. PS 3571 .C22 B4 198
  • 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.
    Educ. Res. PS 3573 .E716 B5 20
  • 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
    Educ. Res. D 769.8 .A6 S73 199
  • 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.
    Educ. Res. DS 881.5 .N3 B58 20
  • 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.
    Educ. Res. PS 3569 .A4554 U5 1