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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"It isn't easy being Japanese American in a small, mostly white, northern California town, being raised by a single mother. When Izumi Tanaka discover her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, it means irreverent Izzy is literally a princess. She travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew--and discovers being a princess isn't all ball gowns and tiaras. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling bodyguard, and thousands of years...
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
3) Kira-Kira
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to California, Sana falls for the beautiful and smart Jamie Ramirez but struggles with differences between their diverse friend groups, a boy's sweet but unrequited affection, and her father's increasingly obvious affair.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
As World War II draws to a close, Laura comes to admire her Japanese American neighbor whose father is fighting for the U.S. Army in Europe, but will she be strong enough to defend her new friend from the persecution of schoolmates?
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Prisoners of the empire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
10) Weedflower
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
11) Ink & ashes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
Author
Series
Momo Arashima volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When kids begin to disappear, Momo teams up with the magical fox spirit, Niko, and her friends to confront a dangerous enemy from Shinto legend, Tamamo-no-mae, and embark on a quest to the Sky Kingdom to steal the legendary Mirror of the Sun to save their world.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Ohayo! It's breakfast time, and Gigi can't wait to make her favorite meal--peanut butter toast. Yummy! But Ojiji doesn't like peanut butter. How can anyone NOT like peanut butter? Ojiji prefers Japanese foods--like natto, which is made from fermented soybeans. Will Gigi learn to love a new breakfast treat?" --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four starred reviews!
"Evocative prose and illustrations bring to life...[the] heart-wrenching decisions and considerations that Japanese Americans had to face...[and] their endurance, sacrifices, and resilience." —Susan H. Kamei, author of When Can We Go Back to America?
Told in a brilliant blend of prose and graphic novel, this "magnificent, essential" (Booklist, starred review) middle grade story...
"Evocative prose and illustrations bring to life...[the] heart-wrenching decisions and considerations that Japanese Americans had to face...[and] their endurance, sacrifices, and resilience." —Susan H. Kamei, author of When Can We Go Back to America?
Told in a brilliant blend of prose and graphic novel, this "magnificent, essential" (Booklist, starred review) middle grade story...
19) Dust of Eden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and are relocated to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years"--
Author
Series
Momo Arashima volume 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
All Momo wants for her twelfth birthay is an ordinary life, but instead she finds out she is half human, half goddess and must unlock her divine powers to save her mother's life and keep countless evil spirits from escaping Yomi, the land of the dead.
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