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Summary: When a love potion gone wrong causes Cam to forget his best friend Remy completely, they travel through Tokyo to rediscover his memories, make new ones, and maybe even fall in love all over again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ABEAbe, 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: Fifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a manga enthusiast with cerebral palsy, spends a summer in Japan, learning about her father's family and making new friends, while avoiding her stepfather and baby half-sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Kamata 2019Miyazaki, Hayao
Summary: Satsuki and her little sister Mei move to the countryside. While exploring their house and the beautiful rural area around it, they experience the magic of the Soot Sprites and discover a huge camphor tree that might be enchanted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MIYMaclear, Kyo
Summary: Soon after a young girl arrives in Japan, she, her grandmother, her aunties, and some cousins celebrate cultural traditions together while visiting a bath house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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Summary: Lily's magic globe takes her to Japan for Golden Week. Her friends ask her to help find the pieces of a broken dragon statue and undo a curse that has fallen over Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: This Little Street 2019
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Summary: A Japanese family mourns the loss of a wife and mother by making origami cranes and using the Wind Telephone to communicate their feelings of loss and yearning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUDJean, 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 JEAWells, Rosemary.
Summary: When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books For Children 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WELStilton, Thea
Summary: The Thea sisters are off to Japan on a cultural exchange program. While they're busy exploring Kyoto and admiring the beautiful cherry blossoms, a valuable item is stolen from their friend Kumi's family. Will the five mice be able to catch the thief?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIGoldsaito, Katrina
Summary: Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WLD Culture Goldsaito 2016Tarshis, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Tarshis 2013Kishimoto, Masashi.
Summary: Naruto and Gaara face a common enemy in the Akatsuki.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC KISMiyazaki, Hayao
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MIYPhillipps, J. C. (Julie C.)
Summary: Although ninjas should be silent and use stealth, Wink finds his enthusiasm gets him into trouble with his teacher until he finds the perfect way to express both traits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Children's Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHIMakino, Aoi
Summary: After that day, she stopped being a girl. In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school, she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NOTMeshon, Aaron.
Summary: A little boy's grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESTagawa, Mi
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TokyoPop Inc. 2020
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Summary: Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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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 JEAStilton, Geronimo
Summary: When Wild Willie showed up at my door and invited me to travel with him to Japan, I jumped at the chance. We were in search of an ancient, legendary samurai scroll that holds the secret to a long-lost fighting technique. The scroll had fallen into the wrong hands, and it was up to me and Wild Willie to track it down and save the day. But first, we would have to fight a group of talented ninjas....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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Summary: Scooby-Doo and his friends from Mystery, Inc. go to Japan to investigate the mystery of a ghost of an ancient samurai who haunts a construction site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2010
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE SCOPreus, Margi.
Summary: In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PREAndō, Natsumi.
Summary: She's Awake! Having wandered the realm between life and death, Arisa finally awakens. But, she doesn't remember anything...?! Then when Midori suddenly appears at the hospital and hands her something, she disappears! What is the relationship between Midori "The King" and Arisa?!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2012