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Books for Teens
Bat 6 by Virgina Euwer Wolff-
In small town, post-World War Oregon, 21 sixth-grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
A Boy No More by Harry Mazer-
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
House of the Red Fish by Graham Salisbury-
Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.
My Friend the Enemy by J.B. Cheaney-
During World War II, a 12-year-old girl becomes friends with a young Japanese American boy she discovers being sheltered and hidden by her neighbor.
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata-
After 12-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.