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Internment / by Ahmed, Samira(Fiction writer);
"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopias.; Muslim teenagers; Muslims; Revolutionaries; Prejudices; Concentration camps;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The fervor : a novel / by Katsu, Alma,author.;
"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Historical fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Japanese Americans; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Torn apart : the internment diary of Mary Kobayashi / by Aihoshi, Susan M.;
The diary of twelve-year-old Mary Kobayashi, a Japanese Canadian girl living in British Columbia, describing her experiences during World War II, including her family's relocation to an internment camp.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Diary fiction.; Japanese Canadians; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Canadians;
© c2012., Scholastic Canada,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A place to belong / by Kadohata, Cynthia.; Kuo, Julia.;
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.Ages 10-14.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Japanese Americans; Emigration and immigration; Families; Belonging (Social psychology); Identity (Psychology); World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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When we were young & brave : a novel / by Gaynor, Hazel,author.;
Enduring privation when Japan declares war on England, a teacher at a British missionary school in China is sent to a distant internment camp, where she provides support and instruction to incarcerated children taken from their parents.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; British; Teacher-student relationships;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Displacement [graphic novel] / by Hughes, Kiku,author,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references."Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive. Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale that highlights the intergenerational impact and power of memory."--Amazon.
Subjects: Social issue comics.; Historical comics.; Graphic novels.; Japanese Americans; Japanese American families; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans; Time travel;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All we left behind / by Graham, Danielle R.,author.;
Vancouver 1941. As the war rages around the world, Hitler's fury is yet to be felt on the peaceful shores of Mayne Island. Sweethearts Hayden and Chidori are in love. But everything changes after Pearl Harbor. Now seen as the enemy, Chidori and her family are forced into an internment camp. Powerless to help them, Hayden joins the air force to bring about an end to this devastating war - the thought of Chidori is all that keeps him alive. Can they both survive long enough to be reunited? Or will the war be the only thing to separate their love?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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After the bloom / by Shimotakahara, Leslie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War and the truth about her mysterious father."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Japanese Americans; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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China Dolls : a novel / by See, Lisa,author.;
"In 1938, Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. At times their differences are pronounced, but the girls grow to depend on one another in order to fulfill their individual dreams. Then, everything changes in a heartbeat with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly the government is sending innocent Japanese to internment camps under suspicion, and Ruby is one of them. But which of her friends betrayed her?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Betrayal; Chinese American women; Female friendship; Japanese American women; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sunset empire / by Weiss, Josh,author.;
"December, 1959: The Korean War rages on. Protesting the bloody conflict, a Korean-American man by the name of William Yang suddenly blows himself up in the middle of a Los Angeles department store just before Christmas, which leads the U.S. government to reopen the internment camps used during World War II. President Joseph McCarthy's America has never been more on edge, paranoid, and above all, dangerous. Several weeks later, a woman hires Morris Baker, now working as a private investigator, to track down her missing husband - Henry Kissinger - who may have a shadowy connection to Yang's purported terrorist attack. The ensuing investigation for the missing State Department consultant working for Vice President Richard Nixon sends Baker on another thrilling adventure of deceit, intrigue, sex, murder, and conspiracy where the safety of the entire world may hang in the balance"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Alternative histories (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Conspiracies; Missing persons; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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