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4) Rain fall
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Series
John Rain novels volume 1
Description
Half American, half Japanese, John Rain is based in Tokyo--where he kills people for a living. But he won't kill just anyone. And never a woman. Rain may not be a good man, but he's good at what he does--until he falls for the beautiful daughter of his last kill.
5) Wingshooters
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Michelle LeBeau and her white-Japanese family are forever changed when a black family moves into her all-white town in 1974.
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
8) 1001 cranes
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
10) Eagle and crane
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"Louis Thorn and Haruto 'Harry' Yamada ... are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil ... flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas--Japanese immigrants--stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family. When Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen ... they're both drawn to Shaw's smart and appealing stepdaughter,...
11) Garden of stones
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Lucy Takeda is 14 years old and living in Los Angeles when Pearl Harbor is attacked. She and her mother are soon ripped from their home, rounded up --along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans, and taken to the Manzanar prison camp. Littlefield weaves a powerful tale of stolen innocence and survival that echoes through generations.
12) Fishing Sunday
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Pub. Date
c1996
Description
A young boy is embarrassed by his grandfather's old Japanese ways, but on one of their Fishing Sundays, he learns to see Grandfather in a new light.
13) Evergreen
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Series
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"Los Angeles, 1946: It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded...
15) Yoko
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
What a great day it's going to be! Yoko's mother has made her favourite sushi for lunch. The bus whisks Yoko to school, where she greets all her friends. But when lunchtime arrives, suddenly everyone notices Yoko's sushi. The teasing starts and her happy day evaporates.
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Accepting an assignment from the CIA to take out an arms dealer who is supplying criminal groups in southeast Asia, assassin-for-hire John Rain finds the job compromised by a rival assassin and the fear that he is being set up.
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Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest...
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.
Author
Series
Japantown mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
20) Kira-kira
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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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.