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61) Memorial
Author
Language
English
Description
"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother,...
62) We are not free
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This dynamic picture book biography introduces readers of all ages to Wataru Misaka, the first non-white athlete to play in the NBA. Wataru "Wat" Misaka, a Japanese American boy born to immigrant parents, liked to play basketball under the glow of stars and a small street lamp in Ogden, Utah. America was home to Wat, but with the onset of World War II, many people thought he didn't belong. "Go home!" they would shout as he dribbled the ball down...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable...
Author
Series
Kudo kids volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accompanying their journalist parents to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, twelve-year-old Andy Kudo and his eleven-year-old sister Mika find themselves immersed in an augmented reality game developed by a former Olympic medalist, that brings players together from all over the world to search Tokyo for virtual medals and clues to the secretive creator's identity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
142 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1939, in Seattle, Washington, as the Japanese invasion of China increases general hostility towards Japanese Americans, nine-year-old Mandy finds the adjustment to her new school as well as the prejudice against her Asian friends extremely difficult to bear.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, customs, significance, and traditions of Japanese Children's Day and the Obon Festival, and the ways they are celebrated today in Japan and the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren't human--that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast--elderly people, children, babies--now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know when...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and...heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer. Because Nozomi has a master plan of her own: one to show Willow she's better than a stand-in, and turn their fauxmance into something real. But as the lies...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
71) Himawari House
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
374 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heart breaks,...
Author
Series
Generation misfits volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl joins her performing arts school's J-Pop club, where the members form an imitation band of their favorite girl group, coming together from different corners of the school to help and support one another along the way.
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jasmine worries that she will be the only one with no talent to share in the school talent show until her mother brings out her taiko drum.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this genre-bending and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms, the author, after the death of her father, grapples with her bipolar disorder and sets out to interrogate the very notion of recovery through the lens of figures from Japanese, Taiwanese and Okinawan legend.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.
78) Faking reality
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old reality TV star Dakota grapples with the fact that her entire life is public fodder while at the same time she is wrestling with her feelings for her best friend Leo, who is dealing with his own issues at home.
Dakota McDonald swore she'd never allow her romantic life to be a plot line in her parents' HGTV show again. When the restaurant run by the family of her best friend (and secret crush), Leo, is on the line, Dakota might end...
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Jasmine travels to Hiroshima to visit her grandmother and cousin. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make an origami dove.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
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