This guide includes historical fiction and non-fiction materials in the library classified as juvenile, YA (young adult), and adult. Also listed are relevant electronic resources accessible at the library. To find out where the book is available, click on the title. To get back to the list, click on the back button on the toolbar.

Fiction

Larson, Elsie J. Dawn's Early Light. FIC LAR

Means, Florence Crannell. The Moved-Outers.*

Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. J FIC MOC

Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood Red Sun. J FIC SAL

Savin, Marcia. The Moon Bridge.*

Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz. J FIC UCH

Wolff, Virginia. Bat 6. J FIC WOL

Non-Fiction

Alonso, Karen. Korematsu v. United States: Japanese-American Internment Camps. J 323.119 ALO

Asian Americans: Opposing Viewpoints. YA 973.049 ASI

Conrat, Maisie, ed. Executive Order 9066. 640.547 CON

Crouter, Natalie. Forbidden Diary. 940.547 CRO

Davis, Daniel S. Behind Barbed Wire. J 640.547 DAV

Fremon, David K. Japanese-American Internment in American History. YA 940.531 FRE

Hamanaka, Sheila. The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism, and Renewal. J 9730.19 HAM

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar. YA 940.547 HOU

Kitagawa, Daisuke. Issei and Nisei. 301.453 K

Morita, Pat. Executive Order 9066 (CD-ROM). CD-ROM 940.547 EXE

Stanley, Jerry. I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment. J 940.531 STA

Tunnell, Michael O. The Children of Topaz. YA 940.531 TUN

Yancey, Diane. Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp. YA 940.531 YAN

Uchida, Yoshiko.Invisible Thread. YA 813.09 UCH

Web Sites

Children of the Camps--A PBS companion web site. <http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/camps.html> Viewed on 11/3/04.

The Exclusion of the Ethnic Japanese from the US West Coast in 1942. <http://www.ww2pacific.com/relocation.html> Viewed on 11/3/04.

This includes an essay examining the "need" for internment and serves as a devil's advocate site for position papers or debates. It also contains an interesting set of links, statistics, and a glossary.

Japanese-Americans Internment Camps During World War II. <http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm> Viewed on 11/3/04.

This photo exhibit is from the University of Utah's Marriott Library. It takes time to load, but it is worth the wait.

Manzanar National Historic Site. <http://www.nps.gov/manz/Expanded.htm> Updated on April 23, 2002. Viewed on 11/3/04.

This site provides basic information about the national historic site miantained by the National Parks Service.

Santa Cruz Public Library. Executive Order 9066 and the Residents of Santa Cruz County. <http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/ww2/9066/index.html> Viewed on 11/3/04.

This page provides summaries and full text of many articles from Santa Cruz area newspapers.

Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. <http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html>viewed on 11/3/04.

This page provides the full text of articles from San Francisco newspapers regarding internment; it also provides a list of related links on the web and a list of related museum exhibits including a chronology of internment, and an online photo gallery.

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona 1942-1946. <http://www.elearn.arizona.edu/wracamps/> Viewed on 11/9/02.

Black and white photos, original documents and some commentary on the Japanese Internment are available in addition to a list of further reading as part of the University of Arizona's Online Special Collections.

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Updated 11/3/2004 by Lisa Matte