Color of the Sea
10 best books like Color of the Sea (John Hamamura): The Blank Slate Boarding House for Creatives, The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962, Poison, Heart Mountain, Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska, Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, House of the Red Fish, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment, A Silent Ocean Away: Colette's Dominion
The Blank Slate Boarding House for Creatives
| Author | Chaunce Stanton |
| ISBN | 1482580489 |
An epic battle between psychological manipulation and natural magic unfolds as Perjos, the world's greatest magician, returns to the Blank Slate Boarding House for Creatives to settle old scores. The house's newest servant, Emily Turner, must resist the magician's powers alone after her only friend...
The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp
| Author | Barry Denenberg |
| ISBN | 0590485318 |
After the time of the Pearl Harbor bombing many people in California couldn't trust the Japanese people. This book is based on a boy named Ben Uchida and what changed in his life during WWII. This book is basically the boy version of the Diary of Anne Frank. This story helps show a different side of WWII the...
| Author | William Doyle |
| ISBN | 0385499701 |
In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called “the gravest conflict between...
| Author | Kathryn Harrison |
| ISBN | 0380727412 |
Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the Sun King and imagines her own enchanted future. Born on the same day-in an age when superstition,...
| Author | Gretel Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0140109064 |
The book description is somewhat deceiving describing this as "the story of Japanese Americans forced into a relocation camp-- set in Wyoming during WWII." It turned out to be not just about the internment camps and the people there, but a blend of their stories with the people in the Heart Mountain area...
| Author | Michael D'Orso |
| ISBN | 1582346232 |
n the tradition of Friday Night Lights, an extraordinary journey into the basketball-crazed culture of remote Arctic Alaska.
The village of Fort Yukon sits eight miles above the Arctic Circle, deep in Alaska's "bush" country. The six hundred men, women and children who live there—almost...
| Author | Joanne Oppenheim |
| ISBN | 0439569923 |
A chronicle of the incredible correspondence between California librarian Clara Breed and young Japanese American internees during World War II.
In the early 1940s, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American...
| Author | Graham Salisbury |
| ISBN | 0440238382 |
1943, one year after the end of Under the Blood-Red Sun, Tomi’s Papa and Grandpa are still under arrest, and the paradise of Hawaii now lives in fear—waiting for another attack, while trying to recover from Pearl Harbor. As a Japanese American, Tomi and his family have new enemies everywhere, vigilantes...
Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
| Author | Kimi Cunningham Grant |
| ISBN | 1605982725 |
Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant's grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi’s Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up...
A Silent Ocean Away: Colette's Dominion
| Author | DeVa Gantt |
| ISBN | 0061578231 |
Charmaine Ryan knows only poverty and pain growing up. In the wake of a horrifying tragedy, she seeks a new life, and fate leads her into the private world of the wealthy Duvoisin clan. At first, it seems as if nothing terrible could touch this seemingly charmed family. But an ill wind blows through the...
| Author | Brendan Halpin |
| ISBN | 1400062772 |
Rosalind had two mommies. Now, thanks to a tragic accident involving foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm donor responsible for half her DNA (and nothing else), is taking custody. Rosalind finds herself adjusting to a new life that seems both hateful and surreal–she’s an orphan with a...
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0618737421 |
Seldom do I find a book that I feel is just about perfect, but Snowfall definitely fits the criteria. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of a girl who had nothing: no freedom, no opportunities, nothing, but still finds a way to forge a path for herself through life.
Charlotte, an orphan...
| Author | Sarah Bryant |
| ISBN | 1905005229 |
I undertook this because it’s set on the Muslim side of the Crusades. Mostly in Crusades fiction we get only a cursory glimpse of the societies I’m more interested in and that’s frustrating. Here it’s the Franj who are only seen from the inside now and then. So, I loved the setting straight away,...
Lémabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty. But it is also a land of swift and severe justice. Young Darroti has been accused of the murder of a highborn woman who had chosen the life of a Mendicant, a holy beggar whose blessing brings forgiveness. Now his entire family must share his...
| Author | Pamela Carter Joern |
| ISBN | 0803276311 |
In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land—and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carter Joern's riveting novel The Floor of the Sky, Toby Jenkins, an aging widow, is on the verge of losing her family's ranch when her granddaughter Lila—a...
| Author | Joy Kogawa |
| ISBN | 0385468857 |
"Profoundly political, exquisitely intimate, Itsuka reverberates with longing and hope."--The Canada Times
Already a Canadian bestseller, the sequel to Joy Kogawa's award-winning novel Obasan follows the character Naomi Nakane into adulthood, where she becomes involved in the movement...
| Author | Scott O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0440403790 |
The planter who buys you will put you to work in his household or in the sugar-cane fields. In the fields, under the hot sun, slaves don't last long, perhaps a year. So show your white teeth, Raisha, smile a lot, and don't say anything unless you're asked.
Snatched from her home in Africa, sixteen-year-old...
Extreme American Makeover
| Author | Mitali Perkins |
| ISBN | 0525478000 |
Adopted from Pakistan when she was three, Sameera "Sparrow" Righton is not your typical all-American girl. None of this used to matter, but that was before her father decided to run for president of the United States. Now some of her father's campaign staffers think that maybe a dark-skinned, adopted...
To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving, Sadie Watson mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie’s Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy named Huck Finn....
Anyone who has read the histories and memoirs of the fighting on the Eastern Front, especially Stalingrad, will not find anything new in Plievier's book yet it still manages to capture that descent into Hell that was the common experience for the soldiers of this, the greatest battle of the Second World...
| Author | Kelle James |
| ISBN | 1442406232 |
Kelle James left an abusive home at the age of sixteen and went to the best place she could imagine: New York City. She had big plans of becoming a model, but within a week she was homeless and broke. What follows is her exceptional story of trying to make it on her own with nothing to her name and no one to trust....
| Author | Alan Watt |
| ISBN | 0446677841 |
The main character in this book is utterly unlikeable. Neil makes so many poor judgements and continues to lie, lie, lie his way through his problems. He drives home drunk one night and kills a classmate, Ian. Instead of doing the honorable thing he puts the kids dead body in the trunk of his car so he can...
Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream
Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston...
| Author | Louisa Hall |
| ISBN | 0062851993 |
From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character....
The Islam Quintet: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, The Book of Saladin, The Stone Woman, A Sultan in Palermo, and Night of the Golden Butterfly
| Author | Tariq Ali |
| ISBN | 1480448583 |
Five nuanced and powerful historical novels depicting the clashes among Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the Crusades to twenty-first-century London.
Celebrated British-Pakistani journalist and author Tariq Ali takes a mind-expanding journey through the ages with these five acclaimed...
