Yoshiko Uchida

Tells the story of one Japanese-American family's experiences in an internment camp in Utah during World War II

The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

Desert Exile

Hana travels to America to escape the arranged marriages her sisters experienced in pre-World War II Japan, but the young businessman to whom she has corresponded turns out to be a middle-aged man who exaggerated his success

A Novel

Picture Bride

After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.

A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation

Journey to Topaz

Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.

The Invisible Thread

Twelve stories representing a variety of Japanese folklore.

The Sea of Gold, and Other Tales from Japan

Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the Depression, a time of great prejudice.

A Jar of Dreams

After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.

Journey Home

In this fictionalized version of a real person's life Umeko Tagawa's adolescence is made difficult by being the daughter of a prominent Japanese Christian and by World War II.

The Full Circle

"Takao longed to be allowed to help his father work at the potter's wheel and to fire the kiln. When his chance came, however, his thoughtless boasting and a quarrel with his little sister lead to a disastrous fire"--Publisher.

Takao and Grandfather's Sword

Picture Bride with Related Readings

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned. Replaces ISBN 9780295961903

Charles Robinson

This book fills a great need in describing the cruel treatment inflicted upon Japanese-Americans during World War II by their fellow Americans.--School Library Journal. Uchida is the author of the critically acclaimed Japanese-American tales The Best Bad Thing and The Happiest Ending. 10 illustrations.

In Uchida's poignant story about a young Japanese-American girl preparing to go to an internment camp with her family for the duration of the war who loses a cherished token of friendship, "Yardely's hushed, realistic paintings . . .) Full color.

The Bracelet

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a landmark work of juvenile fiction This much-loved and widely read classic is the moving story of one girl's struggle to remain brave during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. In 1941, eleven-year-old Yuki is looking forward to Christmas when disaster strikes: she and her family, along with everyone of Japanese descent on the West Coast, are labeled enemy aliens. The FBI arrests her father, and she, her mother, and her brother are imprisoned in a bleak and dusty camp surrounded by barbed wire in the Utah desert. There, she and her family experience both true friendship and heart-wrenching tragedy. Journey to Topaz explores the consequences of prejudice and the capacities of the human spirit. First published in 1971, this novel was the first children's book about the wartime incarceration written by a Japanese American. This fiftieth anniversary edition features new cover art and a refreshed design.

Journey to Topaz (50th Anniversary Edition)

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."

The Best Bad Thing

A painful lesson teaches Miya that social standing and affluence have little to do with being happy.

In-between Miya

"An ingenious simplicity and grace mark the first-person telling of the story of eleven-year-old Rinko and her Japanese family in Berkeley, California. Times are hard for everyone in 1935, but being Japanese is for Rinko an added burden. . . . Compared with the many worldly-wise contemporary book heroines, Rinko in her guilelessness is genuine and refreshing, and her worries and concerns seem wholly natural, honest and convincing".--The Horn Book.

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