evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Yuki Nakahara is an American. But it's the start of World War II, and America doesn't see it that way. Like many other Japanese Americans, Yuki and his family have been forced into an internment camp in the Utah desert. But Yuki isn't willing to sit back and accept this injustice - it's his country too, and he's going to prove it by enlisting in the army to fight for the Allies.

Discusses the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II from the perspectives of a child at an internment camp, a Japanese-American soldier, and a worker at the Manzanar War Relocation Center.

Presents a biography of Kenichi Zenimura, who became one of the United States' earliest Japanese-American baseball players. Discusses how Zenimura and his family were affected by the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and traces his modern legacy.

Examines the history of the Japanese-American internment camps created shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and how the Japanese-Americans in these camps created thriving and friendly communities in spite of the injustice of their internment.

Presents the fictional journal of twelve-year-old Ben Uchida in which he describes his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.

Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years.

Examines the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, discussing the history of Asian immigration to the United States, and the ways in which fear, cultural differences, and economic envy developed into blatant discrimination.

Twelve-year-old Tomi Itano, a Japanese American born in America, and her family are sent to an internment camp in Colorado in 1942, where Tomi struggles to understand why they are being treated like the enemy.

When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.

Focuses on discrimination against Japanese Americans, relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II, and camp conditions.