My nest of silence by Faulkner, Matt 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 325908 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.9 MG

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Manzanar War Relocation Center - Fiction Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Japanese Americans - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction

Summary: A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.

Paper wishes by Sepahban, Lois 

Paperback(Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2016)

BTSB #: 800251 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 3.8 MG RC: 3.2 3-5 Lexile: 550

Genres:

Subjects: Manzanar War Relocation Center - Fiction Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Family life - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction

Summary: Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.