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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Historical Fiction
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge - #16 Everyday Adventures
Tearjerkers
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge - #16 Everyday Adventures
Tearjerkers
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"Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies,...
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Lee Ann Roripaugh has been hailed by Ishmael Reed as "one of the brightest talents" writing poetry today. In this collection, she gives voice to the Japanese immigrants of the American West. In an unforgiving land of dirt and sagebrush, mothers labor to teach their children of the ocean, old men are displaced by geography and language, and the ghosts of Hiroshima clamor for peace. Lee Ann Roripaugh's exquisitely crafted poems rise from the pages of...
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Heart Mountain (located in northwest Wyoming near Cody and Powell) is a spectacular backdrop to a story of triumph and tragedy. During WWII, an internment camp filled with over 10,000 Japanese Americans sat in the shadow of the mountain. The U.S. government imprisoned its own people solely based on their nationality. The lessons from Heart Mountain must never be forgotten. Includes interviews with internees or their children.
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During World War II, by order of the U.S. government, thousands of Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and into 10 prison camps throughout the country. Sam Mihara spent part of his boyhood at Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. This DVD containts the compelling story of what Sam, his family and many others experienced at the camp. It includes videos for both television and computer viewing and a file with more than 70 charts in PowerPoint...
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Special publication volume no. 51
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"The days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were dark days of the American spirit. Unable to strike back effectively against the Japanese Empire, Americans in the Western states lashed out at fellow citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry. Executive Order 9066, signed by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, was the instrument that allowed military commanders to designate areas 'from which any or all persons may be excluded.'...
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Northwest College, Powell, Wyoming, faculty member Aura Newlin provides a present day look back at the Japanese Internment Camp at Heart Mountain. Aura (Matsumura) Newlin is a 4th generation Wyomingite and a 4th generation Japanese-American. Her family came to Wyoming before World War II, with one side of the family working for the Union Pacific Railroad in Green River and the other side of her family relocating to California shortly before the war....
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