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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: 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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
6) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in 1953, [this book] explores the collision of two teenagers facing extraordinary hardship. Their meeting is inevitable, devastating, and ultimately healing. Their stories, a collection of events, are each on their own harmless. But together, one after the other, they change the world"--Page 4 of cover.
8) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"This much-loved and widely read classic is the moving story of one girl's struggle to remain brave during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. This fiftieth anniversary edition features new cover art, a refreshed design, and a new foreword by Traci Chee"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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...
17) Dash
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.
18) Paper wishes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her and her grandfather's...
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"--
20) Four-Four-Two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
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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