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Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
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.
Author
Series
Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Shinji and his S.E.A. cohorts travel to a forgotten island in Polynesia in search of a lost culture.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Society of explorers and adventurers volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
To free himself from an ancient curse, thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi must team up with a secret organization of explorers, find a magical font hidden in the jungles of Mexico, and replace a stolen idol.
Author
Series
Yoko books volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Language
English
Description
Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their names using Japanese calligraphy.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine YA Book Club Pick! Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After is the refreshing, spot-on (Booklist, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan. Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in--it isn't easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it's...
11) We are not free
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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Description
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.
13) When I grow up
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The students in Mrs. Jenkins' class explore the careers they'd like to have when they grow up, including Yoko who wants to be a Japanese teacher.
14) Yoko
Author
Series
Yoko books volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Language
English
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Description
When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats--until one of them tries it for himself.
Author
Series
Derby Daredevils volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
Description
"What do you do with a gentle Great Dane who's the size of a cow but acts like he's no bigger than a mini dachshund? If you're eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her animal-fostering family, you shower the dog with love and do everything you can to find him a forever home"--
18) Dash
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Kira-kira
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
20) Food for thought
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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