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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an icon in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love."--
2) Paper wishes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Tells one Japanese American family's story of internment in a Utah enemy alien camp during World War II. We never learn the names of the young boy and girl who were forced to leave their Berkeley home in 1942 and spend over three years in a dusty, barren desert camp with their mother. Occasional, heavily censored letters arrive from their father, who had been taken from their house in his slippers by the FBI one night and was being held in New Mexico,...
6) Tallgrass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair....
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Publisher
Walker Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
♭2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Drawing from interviews and oral histories, chronicles the history of Japanese American survivors of internment camps.
Series
Arthouse films volume 003
Publisher
Arthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 videodisc (approximately 74 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of community and art ..."--Container.
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English
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In 1938, Ruby, Helen, and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive 'Oriental' nightclub, the Forbidden City ... At times their differences are pronounced, but the girls grow to depend on one another in order to fulfill their individual dreams. Then, everything changes in a heartbeat with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly the government...
10) A bitter legacy
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Examines the history of Japanese American internment camps within the United States during World War II.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (437 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful second season of the horror-infused anthology centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese American community, and a young man's journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
12) Echo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, as the second World War approaches, the lives of three children -- Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California -- become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"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"--
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Publisher
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
151 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused...
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Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 3
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 8 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
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"1944. Crystal City, Texas. Margot gave up everything to keep her family together. And now they are together -- imprisoned in the Crystal City family internment camp, worlds away from their German-American farm community in Iowa. But the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. As Margot watches her mother's health deteriorate and her loving, patriotic father turn into a man who fraternizes with Nazis, she wonders what more it will take...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxi, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them less than 24 hours to vacate their houses and farms. For the rest of the war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned in primitive camps....
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