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Author
Series
I survived volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, eleven-year-old Danny Crane struggles through the smoke, destruction, and chaos to make his way back home.
Author
Language
English
Description
November, 1941. She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline; even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man she is drawn to but who clearly has secrets of his own. But Eva's past-and the future she's trying to create-means...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the predawn hours of December 7, 1941, a Japanese carrier group sailed toward Hawaii. A few minutes before 8:00 a.m., they received the order to rain death on the American base at Pearl Harbor, sinking dozens of ships, destroying hundreds of airplanes, and taking the lives of over two thousand servicemen. The carnage lasted only two hours, but more than seventy years later, terrible questions remain unanswered.
How did the Japanese slip past the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
After bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor, 14-year-old Lucy Takeda and her mother, Miyako, are rounded up--along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans--and taken to the Manzanar prison camp where they endure abuse and harsh living conditions until Miyako makes the ultimate sacrifice.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor-and clear President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the charge that he knew the attack was coming.
The Japanese onslaught on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 devastated Americans...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Describes the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as Japanese forces surprised Americans at the U.S. military base, and explains the significance of the attack today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a Japanese pilot, a U.S. sailor, and an American nurse"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
57 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the stories of American and Japanese survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by Japanese forces on the morning of December 7, 1941, and includes photographs.
Author
Series
Soldier dogs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"From the Soldier Dogs series. Inspired by the stories of the real dogs who courageously served during World War II, this action-packed book takes readers into the action during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When Skipper, the street dog all the Navy guys love, follows Joe home, Joe can't believe his luck. But with a new baby brother in the house, he knows his family can't afford the extra mouth to feed. So he and his friends hatch a perfect...
12) December 7th
Series
Publisher
GoodTimes DVD
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
[Standard full frame version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
December 7th: Reconstructs the events at Pearl Harbor on the day of the Japanese attack. The fleet that came to stay: explains the invasion of Okinawa from the U.S. Navy point of view and illustrates the operation using scenes of the combat.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
1 v. : maps.
Language
English
Description
While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
15) Pearl Harbor
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war, a conflict that engulfed the world.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6.
Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism-a prism held here by an unforgettable rogue and lover, Harry Niles.
In many ways, Niles should be as American as apple pie: raised by missionary...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001, c1971
Edition
1st Gulliver Books pbks. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
191 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines from both the American and Japanese points of view the political and military events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
18) Heroes
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Aboard the battleship the USS Utah with their Navy pilot fathers during WWII when the ship is attacked by the Japanese, Frank and Stanley find their friendship--and dreams--in jeopardy when Stanley is seen as the "enemy" because his mother is Japanese American.
19) Somewhere a song
Author
Series
Daughters of fortune (Judith Pella) volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
427 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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