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1) Talent night
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Rodney, an aspiring Japanese American rap musician, learns about his heritage and the importance of being oneself after trying to impress a rich uncle and a beautiful classmate.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The story of three Japanese women and their loves. One is a Japanese-American university student in New York, the second is her divorced mother and the third is the grandmother, a retired geisha. A tale of Japanese-American identity and a debut in fiction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As World War II draws to a close, Laura comes to admire her Japanese American neighbor whose father is fighting for the U.S. Army in Europe, but will she be strong enough to defend her new friend from the persecution of schoolmates?
14) 1001 cranes
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
The lives of four generations of Japanese-American women, of whom only the youngest has been to Japan. They are great-grandmother Reiko, the daughter of a Japanese princess; grandmother Rio, who once tried to commit suicide; mother Tomoe, a travel agent; and daughter Nomi. All four were born in the U.S. and live under the same roof. A first novel by a fifth generation Japanese-American.
16) Garden of stones
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
After bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor, 14-year-old Lucy Takeda and her mother, Miyako, are rounded up--along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans--and taken to the Manzanar prison camp where they endure abuse and harsh living conditions until Miyako makes the ultimate sacrifice.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree.
18) Kira-kira
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren't human--that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast--elderly people, children, babies--now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know when...
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