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Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) Fiction German Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1941-1948 Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Mineta, Norman Yoshio 1931- Neo-impressionism (Art) Realism in art Romanticism in art Surrealism Symbolism (Art movement) World War, 1939-1945 United States FictionFilter By Subjects
Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) Fiction German Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1941-1948 Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Mineta, Norman Yoshio 1931- Neo-impressionism (Art) Realism in art Romanticism in art Surrealism Symbolism (Art movement) 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 HESHesse, 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 Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESMeissner, Susan
Summary: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEISummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Warren, Andrea
Summary: "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 getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MINPoe, 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