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Adoptees Fiction California Fiction Concentration camps Fiction Fathers and sons Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Seattle (Wash.) Fiction Widowers Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Colorado Fiction World War, 1939-1945 United States FictionHesse, Monica
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESPoe, 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 POESteel, 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 STEChee, 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 CHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHERindell, Suzanne
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 RINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINDallas, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DALOtsuka, 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 OTSRizzuto, Rahna R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIZCreel, Ann Howard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CREDallas, Sandra.
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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: Ruth Utagawa, daughter of lepers but not afflicted herself, is taken from an orphanage and adopted by a Japanese family, the Watanabes, who move from Hawaii to Northern California, where they start a strawberry farm in the early 1920s. In Florin, near Sacramento, they encounter prejudice in the form of Sheriff Dreesen, who wishes the Japanese would all move back to their homeland. Ruth comes of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BREFord, 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 FORBrennert, 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 BreFord, Jamie.
Summary: Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FORTatlock, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TATFord, Jamie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009