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"A los veintidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hap pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno."--Page 4 of cover.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Like many innocent Japanese Americans released from WWII forced incarceration camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of the camps. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, Rabbit in the Moon uses eye witness accounts to examine issues...
25) Paper wishes
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
181 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
26) Shadow child
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
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341 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow our histories can cast"--
27) We are not free
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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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 a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
For fourteen-year-old budding artist...
28) Four-Four-Two
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
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Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and courage: the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated in camps back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights, even if it meant imprisonment. They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese...
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