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From the AADL Youth Collection

THE UNSPOKEN YEARS:
The Japanese-American Experience
During World War II

Compiled by the Youth Services Librarians

Nonfiction

Brimner, Larry Dane. Voices from the Camps: Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Franklin Watts, 1994.
Y 940.531 Br

Chin, Steven A. When Justice Failed: the Fred Korematsu Story. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1993.
J 921 Korematsu

Davis, Daniel S. Behind Barbed Wire: the Imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Dutton, 1982.
Y 940.54 Da

Hamanaka, Sheila. The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism, and Renewal. Orchard, 1990.
J 305.895 Ha

Levine, Ellen. A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II. Putnam's, 1995.
Y 940.531 St

Stanley, Jerry. I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment. Crown, 1994.
Y 940.531 St

Tunnell, Michael O. The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese American Internment Camp, Based on a Classroom Diary. Holiday House, 1996.
Y 940.531

Uchida, Yoshiko. The Invisible Thread. Messner, 1991.
Y 921 Uchida

Fiction

Irwin, Hadley. Kim/Kimi. McElderry, 1987.
Y Irwin

Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. Lee & Low, 1993.
J Mochizuki

Savin, Marica. The Moon Bridge. Scholastic, 1992.
Y Savin

Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet. Philomel, 1993.
J Uchida

Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation. Scribner, 1971.
J Ushida

Note: This list forms part of a larger list with the same title, containing chiefly books for adult and young adult readers, available in the Library.


Arrangement and original material copyright © 1996 the Ann Arbor District Library. This list may be copied and distributed without requesting permission, so long as this notice remains attached and appropriate credit to the compilers is given.


Last revised 18 May 1997
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