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Foxes Juvenile fiction Graphic novels Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Juvenile fiction Japan Japan History Fiction Japan History Juvenile fiction Mexicans United States Fiction Ninja Juvenile fiction Time travel Juvenile fiction United States History 20th century FictionOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC OSBGriner, Susan
Summary: When the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes Tokyo on September 1, 1923, twelve-year-old Fumiko must navigate the ensuing chaos and confusion in her fight for survival. Includes information about the Great Kanto Earthquake, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRILaird, Jenny
Summary: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2008
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KUZTarshis, Lauren
Summary: A massive earthquake and devastating tsunami hit Japan while Ben is visiting his late father's hometown, pulling Ben's family apart and leaving him stranded in a strange country during an epic disaster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Tarshis 2013Gratz, Alan
Summary: On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRAKadohata, Cynthia
Summary: Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KADMoore, Sandra.
Summary: Miyajima, a white pine, recounts how it grew nearly four hundred years ago, was made into a bonsai by a man named Itaro and cared for by his family, survived the bombing of Hiroshima, and was given to the National Arboretum in Washington in 1976.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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Summary: A famous Japanese poet is challenged by a fox to create his best haiku.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYENewman, Lesléa.
Summary: Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor has a fatal heart attack while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies. Based on a true story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2004
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Summary: Tricked by a fox into giving up his share of cherries, a famous Japanese poet is inspired to write a haiku and the fox, ashamed of his actions, must devise another trick to set things right.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2004
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Summary: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 2012Hirano, Ryoji
Summary: "Savage demons devour unsuspecting humans in Taisho-era Japan. Armed with special swords, the Demon Slayer Corps fights to stop the devastation demons spread. Giyu Tomioka, the sole Water Hashira, and Kyojuro Rengoku, a high-ranking Kinoe, embark on missions to eliminate demons and prove their mettle as two of the fiercest Demon Slayers. Giyu heads north to an area where a band of hunters was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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Summary: "It is said that there are some special animals occasionally born with great powers. Senzou the black fox is one of those ... but instead of using his powers for good, he abused his strength until the Sun Goddess imprisoned him for his bad behavior. Three hundred years later, he's finally been released, but only on one condition-- he can't have any of his abilities back until he successfully...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TokyoPop Inc. 2020
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Summary: "YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes-- PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!"--Publisher's web site
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 YOTBehar, Ruth
Summary: "La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEHMartinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002