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1) Kira-kira
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English
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Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren't human-that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast-elderly people, children, babies-now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know when or...
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Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
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Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.
5) Dash
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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.
7) Yoko
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats--until one of them tries it for himself.
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl joins her performing arts school's J-Pop club, where the members form an imitation band of their favorite girl group, coming together from different corners of the school to help and support one another along theway.
Author
Series
Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
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To free himself from an ancient curse, thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi must team up with a secret organization of explorers, find a magical font hidden in the jungles of Mexico, and replace a stolen idol.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous, and...heartbroken? And when she enlists Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Nozomi is a willing volunteer. Because Nozomi has a master plan of her own: one to show Willow she's better than a stand-in, and turn their fauxmance into something real. But as the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this modern-day retelling of the Japanese folktale The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku, twelve-year-old Melony befriends a wish-granting demon who encourages her to rebel against her overprotective parents, all while using her for his own evil scheme.
Author
Series
Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Shinji and his S.E.A. cohorts travel to a forgotten island in Polynesia in search of a lost culture.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their names using Japanese calligraphy.
20) Sweet and sour
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Mai has been contemplating revenge on her former best friend Zach ever since he humiliated her two years ago, but while spending time together for the summer, Mai has noticed a change in Zach, forcing her to decide if she can forgive him, even if she can never forget.
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