evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

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evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

The invisible thread

[an autobiography]
Children's author Uchida, who grew up in California as a second-generation Japanese American, describes her childhood and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.

Desert exile

the uprooting of a Japanese American family
The author tells the story of her Japanese-American family's imprisonment in a U.S. internment camp during World War II.
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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 aliens camp in Utah.

Sylvia & Aki

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.

Paper wishes

Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.

Alice on the island

a Pearl Harbor survival story
"On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him"--OCLC.

Enemy child

the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned.
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Life as a child in a Japanese internment camp

Describes the history of Japanese internment camps, why people were put into them, and what life was like for the Japanese Americans living there.

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