Picture Books

	Lee-Tai, Amy. A Place Where Sunflowers Grow = Sabaku ni sait himawari While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow. Parallel text in English and Japanese. Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino. (j Foreign Language)
	Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us 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. Illustrated by Dom Lee. ( j Mochizuki)
	Mochizuki, Ken. Heroes Japanese American Donnie, whose playmates insist he be the "bad guy" in their war games, calls on his reluctant father and uncle to help him get away from that role. Illustrated by Dom Lee. ( j Mochizuki)
	Say, Allen. Home of the Brave A young man hurtles down the rapids in a kayak, is swept into an underground river, and emerges to find himself in the desert, near what he thinks is a ruined Indian reservation but is really a Japanese American internment camp in which he finds his own name tag. A troubling, evocative picture book for older children. (Juv Fic  Say)
	Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet 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. Illustrated by Joanna Yardley. (Juv Fic  Uchida)

Nonfiction

	Cooper, Michael L. Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp Firsthand accounts, oral histories, and essays from school newspapers and yearbooks tell the story of the Japanese Americans who were sent to live in government-run internments camps during World War II. (j940.5317  Cooper)
	Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment (j301.453 Houston)
	Levine, Ellen. A Fence Away From Freedom: Japanese-Americans and World War II (j940.5315 Levine)
	Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference (j940.5317 Oppenheim)
	Petrillo, Valerie. A Kid's Guide to Asian American History: More Than 70 Activities (j973.0495 Petrillo)
	Stanley, Jerry. I Am an American: A True Story of the Japanese Internment The internment of Japanese Americans as seen through the experiences of Shiro Nomura and his girlfriend Amy Hattori who were held at separate camps. (j940.5315 Stanley)
	Uchida, Yoshiko. The Invisible Thread 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. (j921 Uc44AAi)

Fiction

	Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen #13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp   A "My name is America" book. Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. (Juv Fic  Denenberg)
	Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop. (YA Fic  Kadohata)
	Larson, Kirby. The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis   A "Dear America" book. Beginning in December 1941, when her brother joins the Navy and the United States goes to war, thirteen-year-old Piper Davis attempts to document her life through photography and her diary. When her father, the pastor for a Japanese Baptist church in Seattle, follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, he takes her with him. (Juv Fic  Larson)
	Mazer, Harry. A Boy No More After his father dies during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother and his sister move to California. Adam receives a letter from a friend, asking Adam to deliver a letter to an internment camp in nearby Fresno, where the friend's father has been taken. He agrees to help, despite a tide of anti-Japanese sentiment. Sequel to A Boy at War. (YA Fic  Mazer)
	Patneaude, David. Thin Wood Walls When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hamada 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 United States Army to fight in the war. (Juv Fic  Patneaude)
	Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood-red Sun Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Followed by House of the Red Fish. (YA Fic  Salisbury)
	Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation After the Pearl Harbor attack, an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an internment camp in Utah. The story continues in Journey Home. (Juv Fic  Uchida)
	Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6 Set in a small Oregon town just after World War II, this is a powerful tale of a community shattered by its reaction to two young newcomers, Aki (who has just returned from a Japanese internment camp) and Shazam (whose father was killed in the bombing at Pearl Harbor). (Juv Fic  Wolff)

3/16/11
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