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• My Lost Freedom

  a Japanese American World War II Story

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  [Nonfiction] Star Trek actor, activist, and author George Takei shares his empowering and moving story about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII

• Pearl

  Smith, Sherri L.,

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  [Chapter Book] Amy is a 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

• Love Grows Here

  Ward, Chloe Ito,

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  [Picture Book] When Aiko learns that Japanese people in her own country, the US, were once put in prison camps, she discovers fear and anger, and how emotions can grow. But she also learns that a simple act of kindness can cause love to grow

• Wat Kept Playing

  the Inspiring Story of Wataru Misaka and His Rise to the NBA

  Inouye Huey, Emily,

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  [Nonfiction] This picture book biography about Asian American basketball hero Wataru Misaka will inspire young readers to challenge barriers and dream big. Wat's undeniable talent changed history as he became the first person of color to play in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Farewell to Manzanar

  a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Incarceration

  Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki,

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  [Nonfiction] In this moving memoir, Jeanne Wakatsuki recalls coming of age in Manzanar, a bleak, dusty settlement behind barbed wire. She tells of her family's struggle to adjust to life in cramped barracks, fearful and searching for purpose in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Facing the Mountain

  a True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

  Brown, Daniel James, 1951-

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  [Nonfiction] Adapted for young readers from the New York Times bestseller by Daniel James Brown, Facing the Mountain is the remarkable true story of three brave Japanese American soldiers who fought for the United States during World War II while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Japanese American Incarceration

  Loh-Hagan, Virginia,

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  [Nonfiction] 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. Japanese American Incarceration explores the events in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Michi Challenges History

  From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: the Life of Michi Nishiura Weglyn

  Mochizuki, Ken, 1954-

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  [Nonfiction] A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps.

• Focus on Japanese American Incarceration

  Smith, Elliott, 1976-

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  [Nonfiction] During World War II, Japanese Americans were forced to live in internment camps. Readers will examine the racism and fear that led to internment, what life was like in internment camps, and more

• Seen and Unseen

  What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

  Partridge, Elizabeth,

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  [Nonfiction] Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches--and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love in the Library

  Tokuda-Hall, Maggie,

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  [Picture Book] Based on a true story of love and resilience at the Minidoka incarceration camp.

• My Nest of Silence

  Faulkner, Matt,

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  [Chapter Book] A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Days of Infamy

  How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment

  Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-

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  [Nonfiction] Starting from this pivotal moment, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone will take young readers through the key events of the 19th and 20th centuries leading up to the fundamental injustice of Japanese American internment.

• Those Who Helped Us

  Mochizuki, Ken, 1954-

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  [Graphic Novel] 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kiyo Sato

  From a WWII Japanese Internment Camp to a Life of Service

  Goldsmith, Connie, 1945-

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  [Nonfiction] This is the story of Kiyo Sato and her family and their experience in the U.S. Japanese Internment Camps during WWII.

• Daniel Inouye

  World War II Hero and Senator

  Marino Walters, Jennifer,

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  [Nonfiction] Daniel Inouye was born in Hawaii to parents who came from Japan. He had a happy life as a child until 1941 when the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor in his hometown. As war broke out, Daniel's life changed forever. He fought in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Japanese American Internment

  Prisoners in Their Own Land

  Otfinoski, Steven,

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  [Nonfiction] In narrative nonfiction format, follows people who experienced life in Japanese internment camps during World War II.

• Desert Diary

  Japanese American Kids Behind Barbed Wire

  Tunnell, Michael O.,

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  [Nonfiction] 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Enemy Child

  the Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II

  Warren, Andrea,

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  [Nonfiction] A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Write to Me

  Letters From Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind

  Grady, Cynthia,

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  [Nonfiction] In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.