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61) 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
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...
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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
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
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
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...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 680L
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe edition with 16 pages of bonus material! Experience the forces that shaped an American icon — and America itself — in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before
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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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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
Language
English
Description
"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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Report / 117th Congress 2d session Senate volume 117-170
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Author
Series
Report / 117th Congress 2d session Senate volume 117-58
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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
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 / 114th Congress 1st session Senate volume 114-326
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
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