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Kagawa, Julie

Summary: As Shinji struggles to understand and control his new guardian magic, the members of S.E.A. learn that a sunken ship belonging to the long extinct Natia people has been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Shinji, Lucy and Tinker, along with Oliver Ocean and Phoebe Mystic, a quirky, enthusiastic magic expert who has been called in to help Shinji, head off to check out the wreckage, hoping...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAG

Abe, Julie

Summary: "Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back home. Her hopes are quickly dashed when, all too soon, she realizes that life in Japan is just like being in California: her sisters are old enough to go...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABE

Florence, Debbi Michiko

Summary: When Jasmine and family visit Kabo, the Japanese village where her grandmother grew up, she is homesick and angry with her older sister for not playing with her, but when they start to compromise, they discover ways to bridge their differences. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make a folding fan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FLO

Brown, Waka T.

Summary: Melony Yoshimura's parents have always been overprotective. They say it's because a demonic spirit called the Amanjaku once preyed upon kids back in Japan, but Melony suspects it's just a cautionary tale to keep her in line. So on her twelfth birthday, Melony takes a chance and wishes for the freedom and adventure her parents seem determined to keep her from. As if conjured by her wish, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: J FIC BRO

Yamasaki, Katie

Summary: Even though Lila's cousins do some things differently, Lila loves when they come to visit.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YAM

Florence, Debbi Michiko

Summary: "Susannah Mikami dreams of becoming a famous sushi chef like her dad. And this summer, she plans to learn everything about his traditional kitchen. Only he refuses to teach her, and won't tell her why. Is it because he doesn't want her to embarrass him in front of the documentary crew filming at his restaurant? Or worse, because she's a girl? Either way, Sana decides he's not the only one who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FLO

Wells, Rosemary.

Summary: For the traditional Japanese celebration of Girls' Day, Yoko receives a special gift from her grandparents in Japan: a doll named Miki that has been passed down through her family for generations. Yoko is so excited to share Miki with the class that she disobeys her mother, who tells her, "Miki is too delicate to take to school."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wells 2010

Kadohata, Cynthia.

Summary: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAD

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KAD

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAD

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION Kadohata

Say, Allen.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1993

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SAY

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAY

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott Say

Chee, 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 Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHE

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHE

Turk, Mariko

Summary: While mourning her best friend, Natalie, an aspiring teen paranormal investigator, stays at the purportedly haunted Harlow Hotel where she finds more than she expected.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

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Iwai, Melissa

Summary: Gigi loves the Japan Day Festival! When Ojiji volunteers at the origami booth, Gigi can't wait to make a paper crane like Ojiji's. But folding paper is harder than it looks, and Gigi is disheartened when she sees her paper crane next to Ojiji's. Will Gigi give up or will she try her best?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Faulkner, Matt

Summary: 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, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAU

Iwai, Melissa

Summary: "Gigi can't wait for her Ojiji-Japanese grandpa-to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi find a way to connect with her Ojiji?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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Fujimoto-Johnson, Sharon

Summary: A girl and her grandmother spend the day making mochi together in this gentle and joyous celebration of family, tradition, and the memories that matter most. Includes information on mochi and a recipe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FUJ

Iwai, Melissa

Summary: "Gigi tries natto, a traditional Japanese food. But will she like it as much as peanut butter?"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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Sugiura, Misa

Summary: When kids begin to disappear, Momo teams up with the magical fox spirit, Niko, and her friends to confront a dangerous enemy from Shinto legend, Tamamo-no-mae, and embark on a quest to the Sky Kingdom to steal the legendary Mirror of the Sun to save their world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUG

Harrington, Claudia

Summary: "Lenny follows Kan for a school project and learns what it's like to have a multicultural family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HAR

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAR

Messner, Kate

Summary: This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020

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Wells, Rosemary.

Summary: When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats--until one of them tries it for himself.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEL

Gratz, Alan

Summary: December 7th, 1941: Everything explodes. That morning, Frank and Stanley are aboard the battleship the USS Utah when Japanese planes zoom overhead and begin dropping bombs on the ships below. Chaos ensues as everyone scrambles to dive for safety. Frank and Stanley realize what's happening: Japan is attacking America! The war has come to them. As the boys fight to make their way home amidst the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GRA

Hannigan, Kate

Summary: Akiko, Mae, and Josie, also called the Infinity Trinity, spring into action after learning that a spy is betraying secrets to the Japanese military--and that Akiko's mother may be involved.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2020

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Brown, Waka T.

Summary: "In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRO

Maetani, Valynne E.

Summary: "When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc. 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAE

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