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Derby daredevils volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When they get lost in a strange city during roller derby camp, the Daredevils lose their confidence and their ability to work as a team, but shy Tomoko's wilderness skills and navigational know-how help them escape the urban jungle.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
348 pages, 8 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling to move on after her husband's death, thirty-five-year-old Anna receives an unexpected phone call from her estranged grandmother, Goldie, summoning her to New York. A demanding woman with a sharp tongue and a devotion to fashion and etiquette, Goldie has not softened in the five years since she and her granddaughter last spoke. Now she wants Anna to drive her to San Francisco to return a collection of exquisite Japanese art to a long-lost...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
526 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Garrett Hongo's passion for audio dates back to the Empire 98 turntable his father paired with a tube amplifier in their modest tract home in L.A. in the early 60s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out speakers and amps beefy enough to honor the top notes of the great opera sopranos. And in recounting this search, he describes a journey of identity where meaning, fulfillment, and even liberation were often most available...
66) Evergreen
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Japantown mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1946: It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded...
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Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 6
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 351 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.Only after a serious...
70) Paper wishes
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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.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the first Asian American woman elected to Congress, who championed rights for women, children, immigrants and minorities, paving the way for many other women to succeed.
Introduces the first Asian American woman elected to Congress, who championed rights for women, children, immigrants and minorities, paving the way for many other women to succeed... When Patsy Mink won her seat the House of Representatives as a Democrat from Hawaii, she...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"On December 7, 1941-- "a date which will live in infamy"-- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to California, Sana falls for the beautiful and smart Jamie Ramirez but struggles with differences between their diverse friend groups, a boy's sweet but unrequited affection, and her father's increasingly obvious affair.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Nora & Kettle explores the collision of two teenagers facing extraordinary adversity. Kettle, an orphaned Japanese American, is struggling to make a life in the aftermath of an event in history not often referred to--the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the removal of children from orphanages for having "one drop of Japanese blood in them." Nora, the daughter of a civil rights lawyer who is building a compensation...
75) We are not free
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English
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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate-- and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
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Jasmine Toguchi volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
115 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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269 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
79) After the bloom
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War and the truth about her mysterious father."--
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English
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" Ironside Lake, Minnesota, January 1944. Headstrong and determined, linguistics student Johanna Berglund has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left behind. But when the only way to her intended future is through undertaking a translator position at a nearby camp for German POWs, she reluctantly accepts. Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy Minnesota town...
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