Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation
10 best books like Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation (Yoshiko Uchida): In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel), Peter Pan in Scarlet, Sabotaged, The Boy Who Dared, Citizen 13660, Material World: A Global Family Portrait, The Year Money Grew on Trees, The Pigman, Caught
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
| Author | Bette Bao Lord |
| ISBN | 0064401758 |
Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn...
| Author | Ellen Raskin |
| ISBN | 0140329455 |
When Mrs. Leon Carillon sets off to meet the husband she hasn't seen since he was five, she doesn't know what to expect. She certainly doesn't bargain for the storm that knocks their boat overboard, or the fact that her husband will disappear, leaving only one very waterlogged clue. She also doesn't know...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 1416918086 |
The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan!In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright in Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a writer to create a sequel to J. M. Barrie's timeless masterpiece. Renowned and multi award-winning...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| ISBN | 1416954244 |
After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their...
| Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| ISBN | 0439680131 |
A youth in Nazi Germany tells the truth about Hitler.
Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a full novel.
When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany...
| Author | Mine Okubo |
| ISBN | 0295993545 |
Mine Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's illustrated memoir of life in relocation centers in California...
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
| Author | Peter Menzel |
| ISBN | 0871564378 |
In an unprecedented effort, sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers traveled to thirty nations around the globe to live for a week with families that were statistically average for that nation. At the end of each visit, photographer and family collaborated on a remarkable portrait of the...
The Year Money Grew on Trees
| Author | Aaron Hawkins |
| ISBN | 0547279779 |
With frostbitten fingers, sleepless nights and sore muscles, 14-year-old Jackson Jones and his posse of cousins discover the lost art of winging it when they take over an orchard of 300 wild apple trees. They know nothing about pruning or irrigation or pest control, but figure it out they must—if...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0060757353 |
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When sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
Jonah and Katherine come face to face with Albert Einstein in the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series.
Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s...
