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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gigi can't wait to make her favorite meal--peanut butter toast. Yummy! But Ojiji doesn't like peanut butter. How can anyone NOT like peanut butter? Ojiji prefers Japanese foods--like natto, which is made from fermented soybeans. Will Gigi learn to love a new breakfast treat?"--
22) Silent honor
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
23) Memorial
Author
Language
English
Description
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Houston for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the...
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 6
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Kiri, a Japanese American girl who loves to draw and paint, tries to use the origami set she received for her birthday. Includes instructions for making an origami butterfly.
27) A jar of dreams
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1981.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
131 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
120 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen. Sequel to "A Jar of Dreams."
Author
Series
Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Keiko, Audrey, and Jenna have always been best friends, and Keiko desperately wants it to stay that way, but now they are starting seventh grade, and everything seems to be changing; Audrey is obsessed with the idea of them all securing boyfriends, but when she and Jenna focus on the same boy their friendship starts to break apart--and then Keiko finds herself attracted to Audrey's brother, Conner (who has generally been cast as the enemy), and suddenly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
36) Tokyo dreaming
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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?
Author
Series
Prisoners of the empire volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Former Frontline journalist Reeves (Portrait of Camelot ) examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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