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Language
English
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Description
The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen...
Author
Pub. Date
℗♭2014.
Language
English
Description
"Recounts the final years of the Pacific War, from the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor through to emperor Hirohito's surrender, and on into the misery and poverty of the postwar period, which a wounded young Mizuki experienced to its fullest"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"First volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease"--Publisher's website.
9) In a flash
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Caught in Japan and separated from their father when World War II begins, Italian sisters Simona, thirteen, and Carolina, ten, embark on a trying journey hoping to reach safety. Includes historical notes.
11) The world at war
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished perspective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines - and spine-tingling, first-hand accounts to an already...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Examines the action in the Pacific theater of World War II, focusing on the confrontation between the United States and Japan. Includes Internet links to Web sites, source documents, and photographs related to the war.
Author
Series
World War II chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
20) Prisoner of war
Author
Pub. Date
c2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.
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