| Author, Book | Elem | Mid | High | Ref. |
| Benti, Wynne, editor. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Japanese Americans. (2001) – based on the book published by U.S. Camera in 1944 with photographs and text by Ansel Adams. | | | | X |
| Bunting, Eve. So Far From The Sea. (1998) – a young girl and her family visit Manzanar (illustrations are beautiful but historically inaccurate in depicting the camp’s security features). | X | | | |
| Burton, Jeff. Confinement and Ethnicity. (2002) – overview of each of the different facilities that held Japanese Americans during WWII. Available online. | | | X | X |
| Cooper, Michael. Remembering Manzanar. (2002) – utilizes primary sources to share the Manzanar experience at a level appropriate for children. | X | X | | |
| Denenburg, Barry. Journal of Ben Uchida. (1999) – a fictional account of a young boy’s experience at an internment camp during World War II. | X | | | |
| Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda. Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps. (2005) - a memoir about coming of age during the turbulent years of World War II. | | X | X | X |
| Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars. (1995) – a 1940s tale of a relationship between a Caucasian man and a Japanese American woman in Washington. Vivid internment camp descriptions and exploration of fear, prejudice, etc. | | | X | |
| Hirasuna, Delphine, Kit Hinrichs and Terry Heffeman. Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1945. (2005) – color photographs and well-researched narrative bring to life the arts and crafts created by Japanese American internees. | X | X | X | X |
| Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. (1973) – a first-person account of the author’s experience of her family’s removal from the West Coast, three years at Manzanar, and growing up after the war. | | X | X | |
| Inada, Lawson Fusao. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. (2000) – an anthology of experiences brought to public consciousness through narrative, drawings, photographs and poetry. | | X | X | X |
| Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower. (2006) – based on the author’s family experience, it is a story of a young girl and her extended family interned at Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona. | X | X | | |
| Lee-Tai, Amy and Felicia Hoshino. A Place Where Sunflowers Grow. (2006) – in English and Japanese; based on the author’s family background and takes place in the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. | X | | | |
| Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. (1993) – a young boy faces racism during and after life in a war relocation center; his baseball abilities help him earn respect. | X | | | |
| Mochizuki, Ken. Heroes. (1997) – set in the Vietnam era 1960s, this book shares the experience of a young Japanese American who “looks like the enemy.” | X | | | |
| Noguchi, Rick. Flowers from Mariko. (2001) – during and after WWII, Mariko shows us the power of hope, love, and determination. Her family struggles with resettlement after their release from camp. | X | | | |
| Okihiro, Gary Y. Personal Justice Denied. (1997) – report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians; recommendations for redress. | | | | X |
| Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed: The True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and A Librarian Who Made a Difference. (2006) – utilizes letters and interviews to tell this touching and remarkable story of friendship. | | X | X | |
| Robinson, Gerald. Elusive Truth: Four Photographers at Manzanar. (2002) – presents the background and motivation of four of Manzanar’s photographers: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, and Toyo Miyatake. | | X | X | X |
| Shigekawa, Marlene. Blue Jay in the Desert. (1993) – explores a relationship between a boy and his grandfather at Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona. | X | | | |
| Shigekawa, Marlene. Welcome Home Swallows. (2001) – sequel to Blue Jay in the Desert; how the boy adjusts to his return to California (friendship, racism, tragedy and reunion). | X | | | |
| Tunnell, Michael O. The Children of Topaz. (1996) – diary excerpts from a 3rd grade class of Japanese Americans held with their families in Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. | X | X | X | |
| Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet. (1996) - the story of a young girl and her ties to home in Berkeley, California. | X | | | |
Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family. (1982) – vivid portrayal of a Japanese American family before and after December 7, 1942. Explores their feelings as they are sent from their homes by their government. | | | X | |
| Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey Home. (1978) – Sequel to Journey to Topaz; Yuki and her parents are released from Topaz; when they return home, they are faced with prejudice and violence. | | X | | |
| Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese American Evacuation. (1985) – historical fiction that follows a young girl and her family from Pearl Harbor to an internment camp. | | X | | |
| Unrau, Harlan D. Manzanar: A Historical Study of the Manzanar War Relocation Center, Volumes I and II. (1996) – detailed history of Manzanar. Available online. | | | | X |
| Welch, Catherine A. Children of the Relocation Camps. (2000) – explores how Japanese American children experienced school, meals, sports and other aspects of camp life. | X | | | |
