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evacuation of civilians

Japanese American internment camps

2001
Authors present diverse views on Japanese-American internment during World War II.

WWII survival tips

2011
Describes some of the safety skills needed to survive air raids, gas hazards, food rationing, and other perils on the homefront during World War II.

David & the Mighty Eighth

2007
David Freeman, a young British boy during World War II, is sent with his sister to live safely in the country on his grandparents' farm where he is befriended by American pilot, Tex, and the airmen of the Eighth Air Force, who help the boy as he struggles to earn the respect of his grandfather, accept he may never see his father again, and keep his hopes up that the war will end.

The distant hours

a novel
2011
Edie Burchill travels to Middlehurst Castle, the longtime residence of the Blythe spinsters, to seek out information about her mother, who was billeted there as a thirteen-year-old during World War II, and winds up finding out more than she imagined.

Ragnar?k

the end of the gods
2012
Presents a retelling of the Norse myth about the end of the world that follows the blitz-era evacuation of a young girl whose worldview is dramatically changed upon reading "Asgard and the Gods.".

Prisoners without trial

Japanese Americans in World War II
1993
Describes and analyzes the decision to remove Japanese-Americans from the West Coast, their confinement in ten concentration camps euphemistically styled "relocation centers, " and the various ways in which the Japanese-American people reacted to their unjust treatment during and after World War II.

Manzanar =

[Ringoen]
1988
Chronicles the internments of Japanese Americans in the United States during the mid 1940s.

The tragic history of the Japanese-American internment camps

2008
Examines the history of the Japanese American internment camps, including Japanese American communities before Pearl Harbor, life and the conditions inside the camps, and how those detained returned to their lives.

Primrose day

2005
During World War II, seven-year-old Merry Primrose Ramsay is sent from England to live with relatives in the United States, where, despite missing her parents and feeling homesick, she has many adventures while going to school and learning to fish and knit.

The moved-outers

1992
After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen-year-old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in California to a series of relocation camps.

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