When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hanada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the U.S. Army to fight in the war.
Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.
Chronicles the internment of Japanese-Americans during the war and what the federal and state governments did after World War II to compensate the Japanese-Americans.
Presents eighteen firsthand accounts of the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War, from a variety of viewpoints; also includes an introductory essay, a chronology, and a further reading list.
true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference
Oppenheim, Joanne
2006
The true-life story of Clara Breed, a librarian whose outreach efforts helped a group of Japanese-American children survive the persecutions of the American government during World War II.
Emi, a Japanese-American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship.
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.