Lily's Crossing

By: Patricia Reilly Giff
Lily is looking forward to spending another summer at her family's vacation home with her grandmother on the shore in Rockaway, New York, when her father drops the news that he must go to Europe with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II.

Shadows on the Sea

By: Joan Hiatt Harlow
Based on historical fact, this is a story that brings World War II home, just off the coast of Maine where Jill Winters has been sent to live with her grandmother.

Hiroshima

By: John Hersey
Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey interviewed survivors of Hiroshima's bomb while the ashes were still warm.

Beyond Paradise

By: Jane Hertenstein
Fourteen-year-old Louise Keller and her family leave Ohio for the Philippines in order to join a missionary camp in 1941.

Farewell to Manzanar

Photo of young Japanese American girl and internment camp
By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston James D. Houston

This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention as seen through the eyes of Jeannie, the youngest daughter of the Wakatsuki family.

Weedflower

By: Cynthia Kadohata

Sumiko and her family are shipped to a Japanese internment camp in one of the hottest places in California after the events of Pearl Harbor.

Dear Miss Breed

By: Joanne Oppenheim
This nonfiction book is a collection of letters written to a librarian in San Diego by the name of Miss Breed. These actual letters, replete with spelling and grammar mistakes, show how one person can make a positive difference in the lives of so many.

Journey Home

By: Yoshiko Uchida
Readers first met young Yuki and her Japanese American family in Journey to Topaz, a story based on the author's experience of having her own family uprooted and sent to the Relocation Center in Topaz, Utah.

Lola at the Library

Young girl in front of bookshelf
By: Anna McQuinn
Illustrated by:
Rosalind Beardshaw

Lola loves Tuesday because it's library day! She is ready to go with her library card and backpack full of books. Young readers will easily relate to Lola and her excitement about the library.

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