Ken Mochizuki, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-439-26749-6
Set in Seattle's Beacon Hill area in 1972, Mochizuki's (Baseball Saved Us) provocative novel focuses on four Japanese-American friends, all high school juniors. The narrator, Dan Inagaki, and his parents seem locked onto a collision course....
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Ken Mochizuki, Author, Dom Lee, Illustrator , illus. by Dom Lee. Lee & Low $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58430-265-0
More than three decades after his death at age 32, Bruce Lee (1940–1973) remains a martial arts legend. Mochizuki and Lee, whose previous works of historical fiction (Baseball Saved Us
; Heroes
) offered riveting perspectives on the Asian and...
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Ken Mochizuki, Author, Dom Lee, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-880000-01-4
These collaborators' prepossessing debut book introduces readers to a significant and often-neglected--for children, at any rate--chapter in U.S. history: the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II. The nameless narrator and his family...
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Ken Mochizuki, Author, Dom Lee, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-880000-19-9
PW praised the ``stylish prose'' and ``stirring illustrations'' in this tale of a Japanese American boy's confinement in a WWII internment camp. Ages 4-up. (Mar.)
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Ken Mochizuki, Author, Dom Lee, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-880000-49-6
Mochizuki and Lee's (Baseball Saved Us) skillful volume pays tribute to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat posted to Lithuania who in 1940 saved the lives of thousands of Polish Jews. Defying orders from his government, Sugihara handwrote visas...
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Ken Mochizuki, Author, Dom Lee, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $16.95 (34p) ISBN 978-1-880000-16-8
The creators of the estimable Baseball Saved Us move from a WWII setting to the Vietnam-era '60s with this affecting tale of a Japanese American boy. When Donnie plays war with his friends, he must represent the enemy-``because I looked like them.''
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