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4) Wingshooters
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michelle LeBeau and her white-Japanese family are forever changed when a black family moves into her all-white town in 1974.
Author
Series
Japantown mystery volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been 'interned' by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the...
7) The waiting
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Japanese for Beginners is a straightforward learning guide which enables beginners to pick up a function knowledge of spoken Japanese very quickly and easily. Specifically designed to teach spoken Japanese as it is used in daily life rather than in a formal setting, Japanese for Beginners is perfect for a tourist or business person traveling to Japan or a student who wants to learn Japanese rapidly and effectively. Up-to-date and concise, it features...
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Former Frontline journalist Reeves examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighboring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a 'comfort woman.' After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced still haunts her. In the year 2000, twelve-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert, Tama works in the small library and takes solace in the stories and George, the library's frequent patron whose constant smiles and companionship give Tama hope.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Skye's cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together?
17) Silent honor
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This powerful novel tells a tale of love and hate: the story of a Japanese girl caught up in the terrifying prejudices that shattered the lives of Japanese Americans in the U.S. following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
18) The swimmers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool. The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing...
20) Darkness hidden
Author
Series
Name of the blade volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the Underworld spawns a supernatural plague that sweeps through London, Mio must use her family's ancient mystical sword to save the world from the forces of evil.
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