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[2003]
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English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - 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
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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.
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During World War II, more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans were forced to live in internment camps. Life in the camps was difficult, but imprisoned Japanese Americans remained brave. Learn about these courageous heroes who fought for justice.
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Tokyo ever after volume 1
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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 irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
8) 1001 cranes
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[2008]
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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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[2019]
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English
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"Gyo Fujikawa's iconic children's books are beloved all over the world. Now it's time for Gyo's story to be told--a story of artistic talent that refused to be constrained by rules or expectations. Growing up quiet and lonely at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gyo learned from her relatives the ways in which both women and Japanese people lacked opportunity. Her teachers and family believed in her and sent her to art school and later Japan,...
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2015.
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English
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Former Frontline journalist Reeves (Portrait of Camelot ) examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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English
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The powerful true story of life in a Japanese American internment camp.
During World War II the community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees.
One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them
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John Rain novels volume 6
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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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Momo Arashima volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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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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[2023]
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English
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In this modern-day retelling of the Japanese folktale The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku, twelve-year-old Melony befriends a wish-granting demon who encourages her to rebel against her overprotective parents, all while using her for his own evil scheme.
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[2016]
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English
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Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. How could this have happened? Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and follows the treacherous path that led one of our nation's...
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Akiko novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2001]
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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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