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• We Hereby Refuse

  Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

  Abe, Frank, 1951-

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  Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decide to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways.

• Facing the Mountain

  a True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

  Brown, Daniel James, 1951-

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  The journey of four young men from Hawai'i and the West Coast of the U.S. who fought for our freedom during the Second World War while their families were forcibly relocated to camps at home.

• We Are Not Free

  Chee, Traci,

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  14 Japanese-American teens face internment during WWII. Their interconnected stories show how people and relationships change over years of unjust treatment.

• Shell Song

  Based on a True Family Story

  Fujimoto-Johnson, Sharon,

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  A True story about passing down hope in physical items whether they are big or small during the darkest times, and sharing the stories with your loves ones down the road.

• This Light Between Us

  a Novel of World War II

  Fukuda, Andrew Xia,

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  In 1935, ten-year-old Alex of Bainbridge Island exchanges letters with his pen pal as she endures Nazi occupation of Paris and he faces an internment camp and joins the Army.

• Days of Infamy

  How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment

  Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-

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  Known for his research into other civil rights struggles across America, the author delves deep into the bigoted discourse that eventually led to hundreds of thousands of Japanese American citizens being sent to internment camps.

• Clark and Division

  Hirahara, Naomi, 1962-

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  After enduring the concentration camp Manzanar, the Ito family is resettled in 1944 Chicago. When eldest daughter Rose is found dead, her younger sister Aki is determined to find out why. First in a well-researched historical mystery series.

• Displacement

  Hughes, Kiku,

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  A biracial Seattle teenager travels back in time to witness her grandmother's experience in a World War II internment camp. Hughes draws connections to current anti-immigrant rhetoric.

• A Place to Belong

  Kadohata, Cynthia,

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  In the aftermath of WWII, Hana and her family return to Japan after four years in an internment camp. With the help of her family, she tries to find hope in the darkness.

• When Can We Go Back to America?

  Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II

  Kamei, Susan H.,

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  A meticulously researched narrative history of Japanese American incarceration interspersed with first-person accounts of the people who were incarcerated.

• The Fervor

  a Novel

  Katsu, Alma,

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  Katsu takes on the true horrors of racism and Japanese internment in this novel of historical terror. A mother and her mixed-race daughter, a doubting pastor and a journalist collide when they all encounter strange apparitions and tiny spiders.

• When the Emperor Was Divine

  a Novel

  Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

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  After their father is arrested, a Japanese American mother and her two children are relocated to internment camps. The spare text and matter of fact observations of the various narrators make the injustices the family suffers even more stark.

• Seen and Unseen

  What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

  Partridge, Elizabeth,

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  Three legendary photographers take pictures of Japanese American concentration camps with vastly different results. Each photographer had very different perspectives and experiences attempting to publish their work. Real photos included!

• Infamy

  the Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

  Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020,

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  A journalist examines the causes and the devastating consequences of the decision to imprison Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII.

• Together in Manzanar

  the True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in An American Concentration Camp

  Slater, Tracy,

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  In 1942, Jewish Elaine Yoneda confronts impossible choices as her family faces Japanese American incarceration. Her Japanese American husband and three year old soon are detained. She decides to go with them to stay together.

• Nisei Daughter

  Sone, Monica Itoi, 1919-2011

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  This classic memoir chronicles the author's experience growing up Japanese American in 1930s Seattle, as well as her experiences being forcibly relocated into a concentration camp during WWII.

• They Called Us Enemy

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.

• My Lost Freedom

  a Japanese American World War II Story

  Takei, George, 1937-

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  This picture book tells the story of George Takei's childhood spent imprisoned in American concentration camps during World War II.

• Stealing Home

  Torres, J., 1969-

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  Sandy Saito reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball. When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, his life changes forever.

• Minidoka National Historic Site

  Wakatsuki, Hanako,

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  Today, Minidoka National Historic Site protects the legacy of the incarceration history and its important lessons in civil liberties.