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Impact of WWII on the American Homefront: Impact of WWII

Topics

    

TOPIC IDEAS

  • Entertainment (movies, music, radio)
  • Blackouts/Air raids
  • Fashion/Clothing
  • Japanese American Internment
  • Racism
  • Rationing
  • Victory Gardens
  • Women in the workplace

Gallery Book Walk on Japanese Internment

Blue Jay in the Desert by Marlene Shigekawa

Love In The Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Baseball Saved U by Ken Mochizuki

Fish for Jimmy by Katie Yamasaki

Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai

Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss

Home of the Brave by Allen Say

So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting

My Lost Freedom by George Takei

The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida

Links

LINKS TO ARTICLES & WEBSITES

Gallery Book Walk on the Holocaust

Nicky & Vera - A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued

The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco

The Magician of Auschwitz by Kathy Kacer

The Spy Who Played Baseball by Carrie Jones

Benno and the Night of the Broken Glass by Meg Wiviott

Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren

Terrible Things by Eve Bunting

Women at Work

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