Go for Broke Regiment (All-American Fighting Forces)
by Julia Garstecki
Plates and bamboo steamers come, each with a taste or two! From sticky rice to sesame balls, tasty treats await young readers in this colorful, rhyming ode to Chinese cuisine. With pages full of tummy-tempting foods, the books in the World Snacks series are a delicious way to introduce even the littlest eaters to cuisines from all around the globe.
How did Jackie Chan become one of the most recognizable and beloved actors in the world? Find out in this exciting biography of this martial artist turned international film superstar. When Kong-sang was a young boy in Hong Kong, he enjoyed practicing martial arts with his dad but hated going to school. He was eventually enrolled in the China Drama Academy, where he improved his martial arts skills and became a stuntman. That training led to a successful career as an actor. Kong-sang, now known...
Katie Woo's Funny Friends and Family Jokes (Katie Woo's Joke Books) (Katie Woo's Joke Book)
by Fran Manushkin
Vibrant Neighborhoods (21st Century Skills Library: Racial Justice in America: Aapi Histories)
by Virginia Loh-Hagan
Colonization of Hawai'i (21st Century Skills Library: Racial Justice in America: Aapi Histories)
by Virginia Loh-Hagan
Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends-just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps. This included Fred, whose parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan many years before. But Fred refused to go. He knew that what the gover...
The Japanese (We Came to North America ) (We Came to North America S.)
by Greg Nickles
The first Japanese immigrants left overcrowded villages to work the railroads, mines, and farms of North America. This book presents an enlightening account featuring the Chinese Exclusion Act which opened the door to the Japanese, the bombing of Pearl Harbour, WWII internment camps, and cultural traditions and festivals still celebrated today.
Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as “serenity, surprise, and delight.” Here, Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattle’s Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaska’s notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural school, and the transformative structures he imagined and built. A Japanese American man who faced brutal anti-Asian racism in post–World War II America and an outsider to the...
Farewell to Manzanar 50th Anniversary Edition
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D Houston
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. This special 50th-anniversary edition features a new cover, a foreword by New York Times bestselling and acclaimed author Traci Chee, and photographs of life at the camp by Toyo Miyatake. During World War II the incarceration camp called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of C...
Examines the history of Chinese immigration to the United States, discussing why they came, what they did when they got here, where they settled, and customs they brought with them.
An overview of the history and daily lives of Japanese people who immigrated to the United States.
Tạm Biệt Thời Tiết Ấm Áp và Chào Đón Mùa Đông
by Jade Nujen
Grace Lee Boggs (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio)
by Virginia Loh-Hagan
Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans (Extraordinary People (Hardcover))
by Susan Sinnott
Biographical sketches of notable Asian Americans and Pacific Americans, including cinematographer James Howe, scholar and politician S. I. Hayakawa, and novelist Amy Tan.
"A biography of American golfer Tiger Woods, focusing on his philanthropic activities off the course"--Provided by publisher.
Japanese Americans (World Almanac Library of American Immigration)
by Dale Anderson