Indian No More

The Lily Pond

We Are Not Free

Red, White, and Whole

Ruby on the Outside

Merci Suárez Can't Dance

The Day of the Pelican

Almost Paradise

A moving debut novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II—and the dog she has to leave behind.

Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat, but she is caught and forced to abandon him. She is devastated but clings to the hope that somehow Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. It isn't until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can accept all that has happened to her family.

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Indian No More

Charlene Willing Mcmanis, Traci Sorell, 2019

The Lily Pond

Linda Schenck, Annika Thor, 1997

We Are Not Free

Traci Chee, 2020

Red, White, and Whole

Rajani Larocca, 2021

Ruby on the Outside

Nora Raleigh Baskin, 2015

Merci Suárez Can't Dance

Meg Medina, 2021

The Day of the Pelican

Katherine Paterson, 2009

Almost Paradise

Corabel Shofner, 2017