japanese americans

"A new foster pet, someBUNNY special, has arrived at the Takano house, and eight-year-old Kaita is over the moon! But Roo isn't lick-your-face friendly like the dogs Kaita's used to fostering, and she soon wonders if she'll ever be able to break the ice and find the skittish mini lop a forever home"--Provided by publisher.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

"Tiki the cockatoo is the Takano family's newest foster pet and thanks to her ear-splitting screeching, the entire neighborhood knows it! Eight-year-old Kaita has to pull out all the tricks to keep the feathered squawker calm and content and find Tiki a forever home before everyone goes crazy!"--Provided by publisher.

"In 1941, Japanese forces attacked a US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japan and other countries were fighting in World War II (1939-1945). In response to the attack, the United States entered the war. US officials rounded up Japanese Americans and forced them into prison camps. 'Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II' describes the experiences of Japanese Americans and the effects of their imprisonment"--Provided by publisher.

Text and photographs present the true accounts of children who were forced to live in Japanese American confinement camps.

When Aki's family is sent to a Japanese internment camp at the beginning of World War II, Sylvia's family leases their farm. But Sylvia also faces discrimination, as a Mexican American. Includes black-and-white photographs of the real Sylvia and Aki.

Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the Depression where she experiences a great deal of prejudice and indifference.

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.

Incorporates primary source materials in a look at the internment of Japanese Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor, including discussion of what became of their homes, businesses, and belongings.