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Internment Books

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
They Called Us Enemy
Snow Falling on Cedars
When the Emperor Was Divine
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
The Buddha in the Attic
Displacement
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)
Love in the Library
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
Tallgrass
Baseball Saved Us
Weedflower
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The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Winds of War by Herman WoukThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
426 books — 471 voters
Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiPink and Say by Patricia PolaccoThe Librarian of Basra by Jeanette WinterHow I Learned Geography by Uri ShulevitzThe Yellow Star by Carmen Agra Deedy
Picture Books About Times of War
227 books — 46 voters

Golden Lily - 10 Years On by Lijia XuNot in Love by Ali HazelwoodThe Iron Moonhunter (Fifth World Tales) by Kathleen ChangFantasmas del Oriente by Imanol CaneyadaThe Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Chinese and other exploited Railroad Workers in Fiction
18 books — 6 voters
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie FordSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonFarewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonThey Called Us Enemy by George TakeiNo-No Boy by John Okada
Japanese American Internment
137 books — 108 voters

The Immigrant and the Golden Coin by Dorothy May MercerA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Beloved Daughter by Alana TerryNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBecause of Twilight by Adele Bradford
novels for when you wish you knew more about what you see on tv
84 books — 51 voters
They Called Us Enemy by George TakeiWeedflower by Cynthia KadohataDisplacement by Kiku HughesPaper Wishes by Lois SepahbanSylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling
Japanese American Internment in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
57 books — 30 voters

Quotes Tagged “Internment”

P.G. Wodehouse
“ If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like? ”
― P.G. Wodehouse
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Samira Ahmed
“ People quietly shuffle through the dust back to their Mercury Homes. Even though we are in an open-air camp, we breathe the recycled air of dread and anxiety. Like everyone else, I wonder about tomorrow. Hope. Fear. Anticipation. ”
― Samira Ahmed, Internment
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Videos Tagged “Internment”

Emancipated Heart book trailer
Emancipated Heart book trailer
The Red Kimono Book Trailer
The Red Kimono Book Trailer
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