Naomi Hirahara
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
2) We are here: 30 inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have shaped the United States
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"We Are Here celebrates 30 of the most influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history"--
3) Evergreen
Author
Series
The Japantown mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1946: It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded...
4) 1001 cranes
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.