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• It Rhymes With Takei

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  George Takei has shown the world many faces: actor, author, outspoken activist, helmsman of the starship Enterprise, living witness to the internment of Japanese Americans, and king of social media. But until October 27, 2005, there was always one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Song of a Blackbird

  Van Lieshout, Maria,

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  In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma's world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. That pivotal moment lights a fire within her, and she decides to join the Dutch Resistance. In 2011 Amsterdam, teenage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pearl

  Smith, Sherri L.,

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  Amy is a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl who lives in Hawaii. When her great-grandmother falls ill, Amy travels to visit family in Hiroshima for the first time. But this is 1941. When the Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor, it becomes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not Strangers

  Tuininga, Josh,

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  Marco Calvo always knew his grandfather, affectionately called Papoo, was a good man. A first-generation Jewish immigrant, Papoo was hardworking, smart, and caring. When Papoo peacefully passes away, Marco expects the funeral to be simple. However,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Those Who Helped Us

  Mochizuki, Ken, 1954-

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  In this blend of fiction and nonfiction, two young Japanese American sisters try to make sense of a world where their government imprisons them in World War II concentration camps while some of their friends and neighbors come to their aid.

• Tokyo Rose--zero Hour

  a Japanese Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption After World War II

  Frattino, Andre R., 1984-

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  The true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva was pressed to renounce her American citizenship, but refused. As war raged across the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands

  Beaton, Kate, 1983-

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  Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stealing Home

  Torres, J., 1969-

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  Sandy Saito looks back to his childhood in 1940s Vancouver, when he was eight years old. He's a happy kid: he goes to school, reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball. Then the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor — and everything changes.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Hereby Refuse

  Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

  Abe, Frank,

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  Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways.

• Displacement

  Hughes, Kiku,

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  Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flamer

  Curato, Mike,

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  It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Best We Could Do

  An Illustrated Memoir

  Bui, Thi,

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  Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Citizen 13660

  Okubo, Miné,

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  Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens--who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gaijin

  American Prisoner of War : a Graphic Novel

  Faulkner, Matt

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  After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, a thirteen-year-old California boy who is half Japanese is sent to an internment camp. Story based on the history of the author's great-aunt.

• Fred Korematsu

  All American Hero

  Chander, Anupam

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  This story follows Korematsu from his all-American childhood in Oakland, California, to his role as a young man in challenging the Internment, to his reopening, as a man in his sixties, the very case he had lost before the Supreme Court of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Born Chinese

  Yang, Gene Luen

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  All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Persepolis

  Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-

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  Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maus

  a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art

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  A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Four Immigrants Manga

  a Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924

  Kiyama, Henry Yoshitaka, 1885-

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  A singular and significant achievement, a "documentary comic book" published in San Francisco in 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in America between 1904 and 1924.

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