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1) Tallgrass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
850L
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English
Description
Henry Lee, a Chinese-American in Seattle, loses his wife to cancer and recalls his youth, when he and his Japanese-American friend, Keiko, spent time together during WWII--before Keiko and her family were interred at a camp--and deals with generational difficulties between himself and his father and college-age son.
3) Silent honor
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At the heart of Silent Honor is an 18-year-old student named Hiroko Takashimaya. Sent to California from Japan by her father, Hiroko is caught in the midst of a terrifying conflict when the bombs fall on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, she becomes an enemy in a foreign land and she cannot go home. Along with thousands of others, she must forsake her freedom. For Hiroko, internment is especially cruel. She and young American Peter Jenkins are in love. Now...
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Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...
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"Alan Brennert's beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama--quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa--was forced to give up at birth. The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in...
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"Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two thousand miles away in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier and moved to the new...
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"--
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Minister's daughter Olivia Dunne, pushed into a hastily arranged marriage to beet farmer Ray Singleton after a one-night stand with a departing American soldier leaves her pregnant, slowly relinquishes her long-held dreams of study and travel as she comes to love and admire her husband.
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"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II. 1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior,...
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"Akiko 'Jane' Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her mid-thirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiancé, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro, obsessed with government surveillance, risks their security in a plot to expose the misdeeds of his employer,...
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"From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda,...
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