Japanese Internment
This guide includes historical fiction and non-fiction materials in the library classified as juvenile, YA (young adult), and adult. Relevant electronic resources accessible at the library are also listed. 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
Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.*
Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower. YA FIC KAD
Larson, Elsie J. Dawn's Early Light. FIC LAR
Mazer, Harry. A Boy No More. J FIC MAZ
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
* Available through InterLibrary Loan.
Non-Fiction
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
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
Uchida, Yoshiko.Invisible Thread. YA 813.09 UCH
Web Sites
Children of the Camps--A PBS companion web site.
Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps
The Exclusion of the Ethnic Japanese from the US West Coast in 1942.
Manzanar National Historic Site
Virtual
Museum of the City of San Francisco.
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Updated 5/19/10 by KDV