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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Vancouver 1940. As the war rages around the world, Hitler's fury is yet to be felt on the peaceful shores of Mayne Island. Sweethearts Hayden and Chidori are in love. But everything changes after Pearl Harbor.Now seen as the enemy, Chidori and her family are forced into an internment camp. Powerless to help them, Hayden joins the air force to bring about an end to this devastating war - the thought of Chidori is all that keeps him alive.Can they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"George Takei ha capturado corazones y mentes en todo el mundo con su cautivadora presencia en el escena y su compromiso incondicional con la igualdad de derechos. Pero, mucho antes de alcanzar nuevas fronteras en Star Trek, se despertó de niño, a los cuatro años, para encontrar a su país natal en guerra con el de su padre... y a su familia entera forzada a abandonar su hogar, rumbo a un futuro incierto. En 1942, bajo órdenes del presidente Franklin...
Author
Series
Daughters of fortune (Judith Pella) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three young women, sisters Cameron, Blair, and Jackie Hayes, find their courage, strength, and relationships tested as World War II pulls their lives apart.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1360L
Language
English
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
"From an award-winning author comes a vivid depiction of an act of war from opposing sides of the conflict in World War II--and a rare reconciliation and wish for peace that evolved years later." -- Publisher's description.
In May, 1945 two teenagers contemplated carrying out a plot to blow up the Tule Lake Relocation Center, in California. At its peak there were nearly nineteen thousand people of Japanese descent being held there by the American...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Japanese American Incarceration explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate...
69) WW II: volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Since 1935, the National Archives has been responsible for the acquisition, preservation, and public dissemination of the permanent records of the United States government. Select materials, culled from the millions of pieces making up the National Archives' popular holdings, have been assembled to produce War on the Homefront, a cinematic recounting of the stateside war effort waged by civilian men and women and the war measures - from gas rationing...
Author
Series
Report / 117th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 117-262
Report / 117th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 117-262
Report / 117th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 117-262
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Includes personal accounts to describe the period in American history when Japanese Americans were detained in internment camps; also, discusses the issues and controversy surrounding the decision.
Author
Series
Report / 113th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 113-579
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Report / 117th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 117-100
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Author
Series
Report / 117th Congress 2d session Senate volume 117-58
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Theatrical newsreels, rare color footage, and propaganda films are all incorporated in this in-depth overview of the War in the Pacific. From Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's response, to the battles that turned the tide. Maps out the battles leading to the surrender of the Japanese forces.
Author
Series
Report / 115th Congress 2d session Senate volume 115-375
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When brothers Taro and Jimmy and their mother are forced to move from their home in California to a Japanese internment camp in the wake of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, Taro daringly escapes the camp to find fresh fish for his grieving brother.
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