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Families Juvenile fiction Family life Fiction Grandparent and child Fiction Japan Fiction Japan Juvenile fiction Japanese Americans Japanese Americans Fiction Japanese Americans Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Fiction Japanese Americans Juvenile fiction JUVENILE FICTION / GeneralKagawa, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAGAbe, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAUWells, 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."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wells 2010Turk, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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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...
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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 BROFlorence, 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.
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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 FLOIwai, 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?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Even though Lila's cousins do some things differently, Lila loves when they come to visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YAMInouye Huey, Emily
Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOJean, Emiko
Summary: When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEAIwai, Melissa
Summary: "Gigi tries natto, a traditional Japanese food. But will she like it as much as peanut butter?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE IWAMaetani, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAEIwai, 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?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE IWAMessner, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2024
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Summary: "Lenny follows Kan for a school project and learns what it's like to have a multicultural family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: Volunteering at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the early 1900s, Jewish cousins Rebecca and Ana must find the real culprit when they are unfairly blamed for a series of mishaps in the Japanese garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREKatsu, Alma
Summary: "From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATHannigan, 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.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2020
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Summary: After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEAChurchill, Amanda
Summary: In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KADKuhn, Sarah
Summary: "If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale--being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts' business--she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her cousins were named after Disney characters), and with her biracial background, amazing judo skills and red-hot temper, she doesn't quite fit the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021