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The list below includes titles on Japanese Americans and Japan. It is a relatively short list. We welcome your recommendations of titles to add. Also, see more titles on these lists:
Also, find brief profiles of people and events from Asian American and Pacific Islander people’s history at the Zinn Education Project.
Teaching for Change carefully selects the best multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Learn about our criteria for selecting titles. Feedback on these lists and suggestions for additional titles are welcome. Most of the books on these lists are linked for more information or purchase to Powells.com (an independent, unionized bookstore) and/or Bookshop (indie bookstore platform). A small percentage from book sales through these links goes to Teaching for Change. Titles with reviews on this site are noted with an asterisk(*).
We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America
By Joanna Ho and Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (Illustrator)
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind
By Cynthia Grady and Amiko Hirao (Illustrator)
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
By Lawson Fusao Inada (Editor), Patricia Wakida (Preface by), William M. Hohri (Afterword by)
