Japanese American Internment in YA & Middle Grade Fiction

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They Called Us Enemy
They Called Us Enemy 4.42 avg rating β€” 50,174 ratings
2.
Weedflower
Weedflower 3.92 avg rating β€” 4,884 ratings
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The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 4.06 avg rating β€” 2,250 ratings
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Displacement
Displacement 4.28 avg rating β€” 11,043 ratings
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Under the Blood-Red Sun
Under the Blood-Red Sun 3.82 avg rating β€” 3,620 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating β€” 19,530 ratings
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Dust of Eden
Dust of Eden 4.07 avg rating β€” 918 ratings
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Sylvia & Aki
Sylvia & Aki really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,467 ratings
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Journey Home
Journey Home 3.68 avg rating β€” 408 ratings
10.
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi 3.95 avg rating β€” 424 ratings
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Journey to Topaz
Journey to Topaz 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,628 ratings
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Paper Wishes
Paper Wishes 4.04 avg rating β€” 3,449 ratings
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Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky
Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,719 ratings
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Gaijin: American Prisoner of War
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,670 ratings
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We Are Not Free
We Are Not Free 4.31 avg rating β€” 12,022 ratings
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Dash
Dash 4.07 avg rating β€” 2,195 ratings
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Baseball Saved Us
Baseball Saved Us 4.24 avg rating β€” 3,952 ratings
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The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942
The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 3.76 avg rating β€” 889 ratings
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The Moon Bridge
The Moon Bridge 3.98 avg rating β€” 335 ratings
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Four-Four-Two
Four-Four-Two 4.03 avg rating β€” 694 ratings
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This Light Between Us
This Light Between Us 4.35 avg rating β€” 3,581 ratings
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The Translation of Love
The Translation of Love 3.68 avg rating β€” 1,729 ratings
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The Bracelet
The Bracelet 3.92 avg rating β€” 549 ratings
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Thin Wood Walls
Thin Wood Walls 3.78 avg rating β€” 815 ratings
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Take What You Can Carry
Take What You Can Carry 3.15 avg rating β€” 493 ratings
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Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp
Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp 3.97 avg rating β€” 266 ratings
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Aloha, Baby-sitters! (The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special, #13)
Aloha, Baby-sitters! (The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special, #13) 3.90 avg rating β€” 816 ratings
28.
Within These Lines
Within These Lines 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,560 ratings
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Missing in Action
Missing in Action 3.72 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
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Stealing Home
Stealing Home
by: J. Torres
3.98 avg rating β€” 969 ratings
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The Lucky Baseball: My Story in a Japanese-American Internment Camp
The Lucky Baseball: My Story in a Japanese-American Internment Camp 3.91 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
32.
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind 4.39 avg rating β€” 635 ratings
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My Friend the Enemy
My Friend the Enemy 3.95 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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A Boy of Heart Mountain
A Boy of Heart Mountain 3.96 avg rating β€” 164 ratings
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A Diamond in the Desert
A Diamond in the Desert 3.82 avg rating β€” 991 ratings
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Painting the Rainbow
Painting the Rainbow 3.52 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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The War Outside
The War Outside 3.75 avg rating β€” 5,785 ratings
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Heart of a Champion
Heart of a Champion 4.12 avg rating β€” 231 ratings
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Bombshells: United, Vol. 1: American Soil
Bombshells: United, Vol. 1: American Soil 3.60 avg rating β€” 480 ratings
39.
Molly Donnelly
Molly Donnelly 3.86 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
41.
A Boy No More (Adam Pelko, #2)
A Boy No More (Adam Pelko, #2) 3.78 avg rating β€” 668 ratings
41.
Mei Ling in China City
Mei Ling in China City
by: Icy Smith
3.95 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII 4.20 avg rating β€” 881 ratings
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The Moved-Outers
The Moved-Outers 3.65 avg rating β€” 118 ratings
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Under the Silk Hibiscus
Under the Silk Hibiscus 4.18 avg rating β€” 155 ratings
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Toshiko
Toshiko 3.21 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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So Far from the Sea
So Far from the Sea 4.12 avg rating β€” 612 ratings
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A Scarf for Keiko
A Scarf for Keiko 4.28 avg rating β€” 978 ratings
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Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice, #1)
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice, #1) 4.22 avg rating β€” 712 ratings
50.
Music for Alice
Music for Alice
by: Allen Say
3.93 avg rating β€” 178 ratings
51.
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (η ‚ζΌ γ«ε’²γ„γŸγ²γΎγ‚γ‚Š) Japanese/ English Bilingual
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (η ‚ζΌ γ«ε’²γ„γŸγ²γΎγ‚γ‚Š) Japanese/ English Bilingual 4.08 avg rating β€” 358 ratings
52.
Mystery at Manzanar: A WWII Internment Camp Story (Graphic Flash Graphic Novels)
Mystery at Manzanar: A WWII Internment Camp Story (Graphic Flash Graphic Novels)
by: Eric Fein
3.62 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
53.
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
by: Frank Abe
4.18 avg rating β€” 810 ratings
54.
The Cat Who Chose to Dream
The Cat Who Chose to Dream 3.89 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel
We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,051 ratings
56.
Beneath the Wide Silk Sky
Beneath the Wide Silk Sky 4.41 avg rating β€” 927 ratings