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1) The swimmers

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2022.

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"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool"--

2) Grandfather's journey

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Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month
Junior Historical Fiction from Asia
RU (APA) 3rd Grade

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A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

3) The magic of ordinary days

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Creel, Ann Howard

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The inspiration for the beloved film that became a TikTok sensation
An extraordinary tale of one woman’s journey of resilience, courage, and self-discovery amidst the turmoil of World War II.
Olivia Dunne, a studious minister’s daughter who dreams of becoming an archaeologist, never thought that WWII would affect her quiet life in Denver. But when an exhilarating flirtation reshapes her life, she finds herself in a rural Colorado...

4) Saboteur: a novel of love and war

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Pub. Date

2006

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The year is 1943, and Andy Gledhill's months of training as a paratrooper have culminated in his being assigned to the 89th Airborne. But he soon learns that government has other plans for him. The newly formed Office of Strategic Services needs soldiers with language talents like Andy's to drop into Europe behind enemy lines and help fight the war from the inside out. Andy's new life of deception and sabotage is worlds away from his upbringing

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5) The war outside

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Pub. Date

2018.

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Caitlin's Picks

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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.

6) Kira-kira

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Kadohata, Cynthia

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Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

7) The karate kid

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Quirk Books

Pub. Date

[2019]

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"Wax on or wax off! The classic movie you know and love is now on illustrated storybook for the whole family! When young Daniel is targeted by bullies, his neighbor Mr. Miyagi agrees to train him for the upcoming karate tournament. But why is Mr. Miyagi making Daniel wax his cars, sand his deck, and paint his house? Will Daniel ever master the art of karate?"--Jacket.

8) No-no boy

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In the aftermath of World War II, Ichiro, a Japanese American, returns home to Seattle to make a new start after two years in an internment camp and two years in prison for refusing to be drafted

9) Read me a story

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Wells, Rosemary

Publisher

Hyperion Books for Children

Pub. Date

c2002

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Yoko pretends she cannot read because she thinks that if her mother finds out she can, no one will read her a bedtime story.

10) Imprisoned: the betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II

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Sandler, Martin W

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Walker Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2013.

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Examines the American internment of Japanese Americans and immigrants in concentration camps during World War II, and the struggle of internees to rebuild their lives after they were freed at the end of the war.

11) Barbed wire baseball

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Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month
RU (APA) 3rd Grade

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Looks at Japanese American baseball player Kenichi Zenimura's time spent in the internment camps during World War II and his creation of a baseball field there.

12) Jasmine Toguchi, super sleuth / (bk. 2 Jasmine Toguchi)

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Florence, Debbi Michiko

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

2017.

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Jasmine has looked forward to spending Girls Day with her family and best friend, Linnie, but first her sister says she will not participate, and then Jasmine upsets Linnie.

13) The thing about luck

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Kadohata, Cynthia

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Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2014.

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Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.

14) Shinji Takahashi and the mark of the coatl / (bk. 1 Society of Explorers and Adventurers)

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Disney Hyperion

Pub. Date

2022.

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To free himself from an ancient curse, thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi must team up with a secret organization of explorers, find a magical font hidden in the jungles of Mexico, and replace a stolen idol.

15) Tokyo ever after / (bk. 1 Tokyo Ever After)

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Flatiron Books

Pub. Date

2021

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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 irreverent eighteen-year-old from northern California

16) The lucky baseball: my story in a Japanese-American internment camp

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Lieurance, Suzanne

Publisher

Enslow Publishers

Pub. Date

2009

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In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

17) The fences between us: the diary of Piper Davis

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Scholastic

Pub. Date

2010

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Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.

18) Jasmine Toguchi, mochi queen / (bk. 1 Jasmine Toguchi)

Author

Florence, Debbi Michiko

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

2017.

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Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month

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Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.

19) Jasmine Toguchi, drummer girl / (bk. 3 Jasmine Toguchi)

Author

Florence, Debbi Michiko

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Pub. Date

c2018.

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Jasmine worries that she will be the only one with no talent to share in the school talent show until her mother brings out her taiko drum.

20) Attack on Pearl Harbor / (bk. 12 Ranger in Time)

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Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

2020.

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This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.

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