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1) Heroes
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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Japanese American Donnie, whose playmates insist he be the "bad guy" in their war games, calls on his reluctant father and uncle to help him get away from that role.
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Tokyo ever after volume 1
Language
English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Young Adults
Lighthearted Reads for Teens
Lighthearted Reads for Teens
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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 irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
3) Journey home
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Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
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After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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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?
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Description
Kiri, a Japanese American girl who loves to draw and paint, tries to use the origami set she received for her birthday. Includes instructions for making an origami butterfly.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
Halloween-friendly (ages 2-8)
Halloween-friendly (ages 2-8)
Description
One night, a young boy and his father investigate their frightened neighbors' report of ghosts on a nearby farm.
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English
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"Gigi can't wait to make her favorite meal--peanut butter toast. Yummy! But Ojiji doesn't like peanut butter. How can anyone NOT like peanut butter? Ojiji prefers Japanese foods--like natto, which is made from fermented soybeans. Will Gigi learn to love a new breakfast treat?"--
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Mas Arai mysteries volume 4
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English
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Mas Arai's best friend Haruo is getting married, and the cranky detective and semi-retired gardener has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when the ancient Japanese doll display that belongs to Haruo's fiancée goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To save his friend's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heartbreaking memories, and murder stretching from the internment camps of the 1940s through the...
11) A jar of dreams
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the Depression, a time of great prejudice.
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English
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"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...
14) 1001 cranes
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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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.
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Series
John Rain novels volume 6
Language
English
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Assassin John Rain is trying to leave the killing business behind but a message from a rogue CIA operative threatens to reignite the killing rage within him.
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Series
Akiko novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Akiko and her friends reach the final stage of their mission to rescue Prince Froptoppit from the Castle of Alia Rellapor.
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Momo Arashima volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When kids begin to disappear, Momo teams up with the magical fox spirit Niko and her friends to confront a dangerous enemy from Shinto legend Tamamo-no-mae and embark on a quest to the Sky Kingdom to steal the legendary Mirror of the Sun to save their world.
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Series
Mas Arai mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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"At Dodger Stadium it's Japan vs. Korea in the World Baseball Classic, but before the first pitch is thrown, Mas Arai finds himself in the middle of a murder. Mysteries layer atop mysteries in this sixth in the award-winning series featuring the most unlikely of sleuths, an aging, widowed, not-exactly-communicative gardener from Altadena, California"--
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Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.
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