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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award ▪ American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award
"Haunting....A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper."—Los Angeles Times
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local...
"Haunting....A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper."—Los Angeles Times
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local...
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English
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An unforgettable story of an extraordinary love and a town's prejudice during World War II.
In sleepy Salty Creek, Georgia, strangers are rare. When a quiet, unassuming stranger arrives--a Japanese man with a secret history of his own--he becomes the talk of the town and a new beginning for lonely Sophie, who lost her first love during World War I.
Middle-aged Sophie had resigned herself to a passionless existence. That all begins to change as she...
4) Kim/Kimi
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English
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Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather, and half brother, sixteen-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew.
8) Kira-Kira
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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After a devastating tsunami in Japan, cousins Jet and Kai spend the summer together in Astoria, Oregon, training for the Young's Bay Treasure Island Race and become close friends in the process.
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Prisoners of the empire books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
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Series
Prisoners of the empire books volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The author of When the Emperor Was Divine presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early 20th century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage and the prospect of wartime internment.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
16) Tokyo ever after
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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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.
It isn't easy being Japanese American in a small, mostly white, northern California town, being...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When boyfriend Elliott breaks up with Jenna Sakai before Christmas break, she just about convinces herself that relationships are for suckers and she is better off without them; but unfortunately she finds herself in competition with Elliott for a journalism scholarship, and worse, her first assignment for the newspaper club is to write a personal essay, which is difficult when you are someone who prefers to keep your emotions bottled up--and then...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Japanese American Mika is the newest member of the Lotus Lane Girls, with her very own new diary, but she is still troubled by tensions between her different friends, and worried about her project for the school newspaper.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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.
20) Dash
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.
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