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Desert Exile
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Yoshiko Uchida
Autobiographical account of the internment of the Japanese American author's family in 1942.
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Picture Bride
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Yoshiko Uchida
Hana travels to America to escape the arranged marriages her sisters experienced in pre-World War II Japan, but the young businessman to whom she has corresponded turns out to be a middle-aged man who exaggerated his success.
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Invisible Thread
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Yoshiko Uchida
The author of "The Best Bad Thing", "The Happiest Ending", and "A Jar of Dreams" tells of her childhood in Berkeley, California. Although her parents were both born in Japan, Yoshiko, her older sister Keiko, and her parents all consider themselves Americans. Although Yoshiko and her family are happy in the United States, she describes her feelings ...
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Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation
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Eleven-year-old Yuki Sakane and her family are living in California when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, it seems as if all people of Japanese descent are seen as suspicious. Soon Yuki's father is taken away by the FBI, and Yuki, her mother, and her brother are sent to an internment camp--first at the horse stalls of the Tanforan ...
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The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography
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The author of "The Best Bad Thing", "The Happiest Ending", and "A Jar of Dreams" tells of her childhood in Berkeley, California. Although her parents were both born in Japan, Yoshiko, her older sister Keiko, and her parents all consider themselves Americans. Although Yoshiko and her family are happy in the United States, she describes her feelings ...
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Jar of Dreams
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During the Great Depression, an 11-year-old Japanese-American girl named Rinko must contend not only with poverty, but also with prejudice. Despite many hardships, Rinko finds comfort through her friendship with an aunt from Japan who comes to stay with the family for the summer. Will Aunt Waka be able to help Rinko and her family fulfill their ...
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Journey Home
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Yoshiko Uchida
This sequel to JOURNEY TO TOPAZ takes place after 12-year-old Yuki and the rest of her Japanese-American family are released from Topaz, the internment camp they and many other Japanese-Americans were forced to live in during World War II. Although Yuki and her family are once again free, they are still often treated with hatred and prejudice. ...
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Journey to Topaz
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Eleven-year-old Yuki Sakane and her family are living in California when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, it seems as if all people of Japanese descent are seen as suspicious. Soon Yuki's father is taken away by the FBI, and Yuki, her mother, and her brother are sent to an internment camp--first at the horse stalls of the Tanforan ...
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Under the eye of the storm
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John Hersey
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Bracelet
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Yoshiko Uchida
In this picture book set during World War II, a Japanese-American girl named Emi and the rest of her family are forced to leave their home and live in an internment camp. Emi, a second grader, tries to be brave, but when she loses the bracelet given to her by the best friend she left behind in California, Emi feels she can't cope. Luckily, Emi's ...
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The Wise Old Woman
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Yoshiko Uchida
A picture-book retelling of a Japanese folktale. When a cruel village master decrees that anyone over age 70 is useless and must die, all the elderly of the village are taken up to a mountain and left to perish. A young farmer realizes that his beloved mother will soon be 70 and so builds a secret room for her in his house to hide her from the ...
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Samurai of Gold Hill
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Yoshiko Uchida
The story of a young boy and his father who must leave Japan for America because there is no place for a samurai asuch as his father. They come to Califonria in 1869 to become farmers.
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In good company
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Richard L. Allington, Yoshiko Uchida
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Magic Listening Cap: More Folk Tales from Japan
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Yoshiko Uchida (Illustrator)
This collection of Japanese folktales includes "The Wrestling Match of the Two Buddhas", "Three Tests for the Prince", "The Man Who Bought a Dream", and "The Grateful Stork". Illustrated with b&w drawings.
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The Forever Christmas Tree
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Yoshiko Uchida
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The Sea of Gold, and Other Tales from Japan
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Yoshiko Uchida
Twelve stories representing a variety of Japanese folklore.
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The Happiest Ending
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Yoshiko Uchida
Set in 1936, this sequel to "A Jar of Dreams" and "The Best Bad Thing" once again features Rinko Tsujimura, a Japanese American girl who is now 12 years old. Here Rinko learns that Teru, the daughter of family friend, is coming from Japan to the United States to take part in an arranged marriage with a man twice her age. Feeling that this is an ...
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Mik and the prowler.
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Yoshiko Uchida
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Takao and grandfather's sword.
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Sumi's special happening
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Yoshiko Uchida, Kazue Mizumura
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The Rooster Who Understood Japanese
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Yoshiko Uchida, Charles Robinson
Miyo, a young Japanese American, helps her neighbor find a home in the country for her pet.
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Takao and Grandfather's Sword
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Houghton Mifflin Company, Yoshiko Uchida
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Sumi & the goat & the Tokyo Express.
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Yoshiko Uchida, Kazue Mizumura
The new high speed train wasn't supposed to stop at Sugi Village, but that schedule didn't take into account Miki, the goat.
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The birthday visitor
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Yoshiko Uchida
Emi is convinced that her seventh birthday will be spoiled by yet another of her parent's "dull" visitors from Japan.
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The Two Foolish Cats: Suggested by a Japanese Folktale
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Yoshiko Uchida, Margot Zemach (Illustrator)
A favorite Japanese folktale retold about two greedy cats and a wise old monkey. Full-color illustrations throughout.
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