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Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUGPoe, Mayumi Shimose
Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POELarson, Kirby.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LARSepahban, Lois.
Summary: Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEPDallas, Sandra.
Summary: "After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DALChee, Traci
Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEFaulkner, Matt.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion Books 2014
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Summary: "Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada--Eagle and Crane--are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas--Japanese immigrants--stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family. When Louis and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RINFord, Jamie.
Summary: When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, a man embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORHesse, Monica
Summary: Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESOtsuka, Julie
Summary: Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSMorrill, Jan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morrill 2013Rizzuto, Rahna R.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIZCreel, Ann Howard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALBrennert, Alan
Summary: Follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, Ruth, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BreTatlock, Ann.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TATMcMorris, Kristina.
Summary: Violinist Maddie elopes with Lane Moritomo, the ambitious son of Japanese immigrants, but after Pearl Harbor is bombed, Lane is seen as the enemy and she must sacrifice her Juilliard ambitions when he is interned at a war relocation camp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMSteel, Danielle.
Summary: The drama of a young Japanese woman who comes to the U.S. to attend college and falls in love with a white American. She is Hiroko, he is Peter, and their romance is shattered by Pearl Harbor. He goes off to war, she to a concentration camp. Life will reunite them, but will it be the same? She is a changed woman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEFukuda, Andrew Xia
Summary: In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2020
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DENHughes, Dean
Summary: Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HUGDallas, Sandra.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007