Hesse, Monica. The War Outside.City: Publisher, 2016.
Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mother's health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. But in a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyone--even each other?

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar.New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston chronicles her family’s experiences being forcefully removed from their home and confined to Manzanar, one of the sites of camps established by the U.S. government to detain Japanese Americans. The story follows a young Jeanne and her family during their years at the camp, and also recounts their experiences back in society after being released. This memoir, released in 1973 is one of the earliest published firsthand accounts of the Japanese American incarceration.

Hughes, Kiku. Displacement.New York: First Second (Illustrated edition), 2020.
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother’s experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps.

Lindquist, Heather C., Editor. Children of Manzanar,a co-publication by Heyday and Manzanar History Association, Berkeley, Calif, 2012.
This book captures the experiences of some of the nearly four thousand children and young adults held at Manzanar during World War II under Executive Order 9066. An act that authorized the U.S. Army to undertake the rapid removal of more than one hundred thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

Marrin, Albert. Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. How could this have happened? Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and follows the treacherous path that led one of our nation's most beloved presidents to make this decision. Meanwhile, it illuminates the history of Japan and its own struggles with racism and xenophobia, which led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, ultimately tying the two countries together.

Mochizuki, Kenneth. Baseball Saved Us.New York: Lee & Low Books, 2018.
Shorty and his family, along with thousands of other Japanese Americans, have been forced to relocate from their homes to a camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Fighting the heat, dust, and freezing cold nights of the desert, Shorty and the others at the camp need something to look forward to, even if only for nine innings. So they build a playing field, and in this unlikely place, a baseball league is formed. Surrounded by barbed-wire fences and guards in towers, Shorty soon finds that he is playing not only to win, but to gain dignity and self-respect as well.

Matsuda, Mary. Looking Like The Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps.City: New Sage Press, 2005.
This memoir, told from the heart and mind of the now 80 year old Mary Matsuda Gruenwald recalls when she was 16 and evacuated to an internment camp with her family.

Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference.New York: Scholastic NonFiction, 2006.
In the early 1940's, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also a friend to dozens of Japanese American children and teens when war broke out in December of 1941. The story of what happened to these American citizens is movingly told through letters that her young friends wrote to Miss Breed during their internment. This remarkable librarian and humanitarian served as a lifeline to these imprisoned young people, and was brave enough to speak out against a shameful chapter in American history.

Takei, George with Justin Eisinger. They Called Us Enemy.San Diego: Top Shelf Productions, 2019.
In 1942, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was sent to ‘relocation centers’They Called Us Enemy is Takei’s first hand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds of his astonishing future.

Uchida, Yoshiko. The Invisible Thread (In My Own Words).New York: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 1991.
Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.