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704.0869 HIR
Hirasuna, Delphine, 1946­. The art of gaman : arts and crafts from the Japanese American internment camps,
1942­1946. Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, c2005.
Presents over 150 artworks created in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II, and
describes the creation of the camps and daily life within them.
796.357 MOS
Moss, Marissa. Barbed wire baseball. New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2013.
940.5 DAV
Davis, Daniel S. Behind barbed wire : the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. 1st ed.
New York : Dutton, c1982.
Discusses the forced internment of Japanese Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor,
their way of life there, and their eventual assimilation into society following the war.
940.53 ROB
Robinson, Greg, 1966­. By order of the president : FDR and the internment of Japanese Americans.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Explores President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's role in making and implementing the interment of
Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
PROF 940.53 QUE
Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz. Camp Days 1942­1945. Santa Ana : Edinger Printing, 2004.
This collection of paintings by the gifted artist Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieroz, is her memoir in art of
her girlhood years imprisoned in a camp called Posten in the desolation of a desert in Arizona...Chizuko's
art is a powerful narrative of a shameful event in our history. It is also an evocative personal chronicle of
the survival of a loving and resilient family.".
940.53 LIN
Children of Manzanar. Berkeley, CA : Heyday ;, 2012.
Foreword / by Mary Daniel ­­ American birthrights, Japanese bloodlines ­­ No more family feeling ­­ Toy
loan library ­­ Unearthed treasures ­­ An evolving community ­­ Hospital school ­­ Children's village ­­
Confinement and conflict ­­ Dismantling Manzanar. Brief essays and captioned black­and­white
photographs document the experiences of Japanese American children and young adults at the Manzanar
War Relocation Center.
940.53 TUN
Tunnell, Michael O. The children of Topaz : the story of a Japanese American internment camp : based on a
classroom diary. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1996.
The diary of a third­grade class of Japanese­American children being held with their families in an
internment camp during World War II.
940.54 OKU
Okubo, Miné. Citizen 13660. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1983.
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A Japanese artist illustrates and narrates her experiences in the Japanese internment camps where
110,000 people of Japanese descent were held in the U.S. during World War II.
940.53 NAK
Nakagawa, George. The Cross on Castle Rock : A Childhood Memoir.
The Cross on Castle Rock chronicles the World War II years which author George Nakagawa spend in
American prison camps. In spite of poor food, stark conditions, and restrictions on freedom, communal
living and freedom from chores resulted in a fun­filled three years for the young son of a poor immigrant
farmer. There was also a dark side. Widespread racism in America and instances of gross incompetence
on the part of inexperienced camp administrators resulted in mistrust and misunderstanding. There was
also needless pain and suffering when the camps were suddenly closed, leaving them homeless, jobless
and virtually penniless.
940.53 OPP
Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed : true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War
II and a librarian who made a difference. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006.
The true­life 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.
940.54 UCH
Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family. Seattle : University of
Washington Press, c1982.
A first­person story telling of the U.S. internment of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
940.53 TAK
Takami, David A. Divided destiny: a history of Japanese Americans in Seattle. Seattle, WA : U of WA Press,
1998.
940.53 SIN
Sinnott, Susan. Doing our part : American women on the home front during World War II. New York : F.
Watts, c1995.
Tells about the roles filled by women in the U.S. during World War II and how society viewed women
after the war.
940.53 LEV
Levine, Ellen. A fence away from freedom : Japanese Americans and World War II. New York : G.P. Putnam's,
c1995.
Relates the experiences of thirty­five Japanese­Americans and their families who were sent to American
prison camps during World War II.
940.53 STA
Stanley, Jerry, 1941­. I am an American : a true story of the Japanese internment. New York : Crown, c1994.
Chronicles the internment of Japanese­Americans during the war and what the federal and state
governments did after World War II to compensate the Japanese­Americans.
940.53 GOR
Lange, Dorothea. Impounded : Dorothea Lange and the censored images of Japanese American internment.
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1st ed. New York : Norton, c2006.
A collection of illustrated photographs of the internment of Japanese Americans at the beginning of World
War Two taken by noted documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, along with essays that provides a
biography of Lange and the effects of internment on the Japanese community.
940.5 WOO
Woodward, Mary, 1946­. In defense of our neighbors : the Walt and Milly Woodward story. 1st ed. Bainbridge
Island, Wash. : Fenwick, 2008.
921 UCH
Uchida, Yoshiko. The invisible thread : [an autobiography]. 1st Beech Tree ed. New York : Beech Tree Books,
[1995], c1991.
Children's author Uchida, who grew up in California as a second­generation Japanese American, describes
her childhood and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.
940.53 HON
Japanese American journey : the story of a people. 1st ed. San Mateo, CA : JACP, c1985.
Traces the history of Japanese Americans, discusses the prejudice and repressive measures directed
against them during World War II, looks at the lives of ten statesmen, scientists, and authors, and
includes three literary selections.
305.895 HIR
Hirabayashi, Liane, 1965­. Japanese Americans struggle for equality. Vero Beach, Fla. : Rouke Corp., c1992.
The Japanese American experience ­­ Immigration : the Dekasegi ideal (1885­1908) ­­ The incarceration
(1909­1940) ­­ Redress and reparation ­­ The model minority. Text and photographs identify
discrimination and discuss how Japanese Americans have struggled for their civil rights.
940.53 HAM
Hamanaka, Sheila. The journey : Japanese Americans, racism, and renewal. New York : Orchard Books,
c1990.
Text and photographed details of a mural depict the history of the Japanese people in America.
940.53 GRU
Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda, 1925­. Looking like the enemy : my story of imprisonment in Japanese­American
internment camps. Troutdale, OR : NewSage Press, c2005.
Mary Matsuda Gruenwald recounts the experiences she and her family had after being evacuated to an
internment camp for Japanese­Americans during World War II.
940.53 ARM
Armor, John. Manzanar : [Ringoen]. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1989.
940.53 MOR
More than a game : sport in the Japanese American community. Los Angeles, Calif. : Japanese American
National Museum, 2000.
741.5 FEI
Fein, Eric. Mystery at Manzanar : a WWII internment camp story. Mankato, Minn. : Stone Arch Books, c2009.
Fifteen­year­old Tommy, having been forced into a Japanese internment camp with the rest of his family,
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investigates when another internee is attacked.
979.7 SON
Sone, Monica Itoi, 1919­. Nisei daughter. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2000], c1953.
A Japanese­American's personal account of growing up in Seattle in the 1930s and of being subjected to
relocation during World War II.
940.53 OKA
Okada, John. No­no boy. University of Washington Press ed. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1979.
After World War II Ichiro returns home to Seattle after four years­­two spent in a Japanese internment
camp, and two in prison for refusing to fight in the U.S. Army, and finds himself rejected by still­
frightened whites, as well as his own people.
940.53 KIU
Omoide V Childhood Memories. Bothell, WA : Book Publishers Network, 2009.
940.53 SIN
Sinnott, Susan. Our burden of shame : Japanese­American internment during World War II. New York : F.
Watts, c1995.
Tells how racism and anti­Japanese hysteria during World War II resulted in Japanese­Americans being
imprisoned unjustly in internment camps in the U.S.
940.53 MOC
Mochizuki, Ken, 1954­. Passage to freedom : the Sugihara story. 1st ed. New York : Lee & Low Books, c1997.
Tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania in 1940 who risked
the safety of his own family members and put his job on the line by issuing visas to as many as 10,000
Jews who were facing death at the hands of the Nazis.
940.53 PAT
Patriotism, perserverance, posterity : the story of the National Japanese American Memorial. Washington, DC
: National Japanese American Memorial Foundation, c2001.
940.54 COO
Cooper, Michael L., 1950­. Remembering Manzanar : life in a Japanese relocation camp. New York : Clarion
Books, c2002.
Uses firsthand accounts, oral histories, and essays from school newspapers and yearbooks to tell the
story of the Japanese Americans who were sent to live in government­run internments camps during
World War II.
940.53 NEV
Margaret Nevinski. Remembering Minidoka : A Journal from an Internment Camp. Chicago, IL : Wright
Group/McGraw­Hill, 2001.
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Bunting, Eve, 1928­. So far from the sea. New York : Clarion Books, c1998.
When seven­year­old Laura and her family visit Grandfather's grave at the Manzanar War Relocation
Center, the Japanese American child leaves behind a special symbol.
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940.53 ICH
Sat Ichikawa. The Minidoka Story. Seattle, WA : NVC Foundation, 2009.
DVD 940.53 SUZ
Toyo's camera : Japanese American history during WWII. Hollywood, CA : United Television Broadcasting
Systems, c2009.
Narrator, George Takei ; voice overs: Nagisa Mihara, Shusei Terasaka, Taisei Terasaka. While bringing
cameras into internment camps was prohibited, one photographer smuggled in his own camera lens and
built a camera to take photographs of life behind barbed wires in Manzanar War Relocation Center. That
man was photographer Toyo Miyatake. Through an artistic medium, Miyatake captured the devastating
conditions during WWII, when Japanese Americans could not belong to Japan or America.
940.53 MOU
Moulin, Pierre. U. S. Samurais in Bruyeres : People of France and Japanese Americans: incredible story.
France : Editions Gerard Louis, 1988.
940.53 VIE
The View from within : Japanese American art from the internment camps, 1942­1945 : Wight Art Gallery
October 13 through December 6, 1992. [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Japanese American National Museum,
c1992.
940.54 WEG
Weglyn, Michi, 1926­. Years of infamy : the untold story of America's concentration camps. Updated ed., 1st
University of Washington Press ed. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1996.
Examines the formation and administration of the relocation camps in the western U.S. that Japanese­
Americans were forcibly moved to during World War II, focusing on the ways relocation affected
Americans of Japanese descent.
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