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2) Ink
Author
Series
Paper gods volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mother's death, Katie moves to Japan to live with her aunt. Then she meets Tomo, whose ink drawings come to life when Katie is near.
3) Hiroshima
Author
Language
English
Description
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
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Description
Child exile. Teenage runaway. Military genius. Immortal hero. Yoshitsune had little going for him. Exiled to a monastery, he had no money, no allies, and no martial training. He wasn't big or strong or good-looking. His only assets were brains, ambition, and a dream. But childhood dreams can change history. At the age of fifteen, Yoshitsune escaped. Blow by painful blow, he learned the art of the sword. Fall after bruising fall, he mastered mounted...
7) The day the world went nuclear: dropping the atom bomb and the end of World War II in the Pacific
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe, but in the Pacific, American soldiers face an enemy who will not surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. Newly inaugurated president Harry Truman faces the most important political decision in history: whether to...
Author
Series
Tales of the Otori volume 2
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Sophia has seven days left in Tokyo before she moves back to the United States, and she unexpectedly finds herself drawn to Jamie, a boy with whom she shares a heartbreaking history. Can their one short week of Tokyo adventures end in anything but good-bye?"--
12) Blood ninja
Author
Series
Blood Ninja trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his life, Taro discovers the connection between ninjas and vampires and finds himself being dragged into a bitter conflict between the rival lords ruling Japan.
Author
Series
Tales of the Otori volume 3
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2005, ©2004
Language
English
Description
Takeo and Kaede combine their powers in order to do battleagainst Arai Daiichi, the warlord who controls most of the Three Countries.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers — Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there — were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared.
When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened
...16) Himawari House
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heart breaks,...
Author
Series
Flame in the mist volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Throne of Glass.
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place—she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has...
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place—she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has...
19) Rain
Author
Series
Paper gods volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie goes in search of help from surprising sources when Tomo gives up drawing and his powers begin to spiral out of control.
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