Boys of Summer

Wishing Day

The Turning

This Boy

Tigers, Not Daughters

Love Like Sky

Mistletoe

I Never

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A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes.Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive. Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale that highlights the intergenerational impact and power of memory.

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Boys of Summer

Steve Berman, Various, 2012

Wishing Day

Lauren Myracle, Julie McLaughlin, 2016

The Turning

Amy Reed, 2011

This Boy

Lauren Myracle, 2020

Tigers, Not Daughters

Samantha Mabry, 2020

Love Like Sky

Leslie C. Youngblood, 2018

Mistletoe

Aimee Friedman, Melissa De La Cruz, Hailey Abbott, 2006

I Never

Laura Hopper, 2017