Yoshiko Uchida
Yoshiko Uchida
Yoshiko Uchida was born on November 18, 1921, in Alameda, California. A renowned Japanese-American author and educator, she dedicated much of her life to exploring themes of identity, cultural heritage, and resilience. Uchida’s work often reflects her experiences as a Japanese-American, providing insightful perspectives on the challenges and triumphs of her community.
Personal Name: Yoshiko Uchida
Yoshiko Uchida Books
(23 Books)
Amazing book! Yuki a Japanese little girl who has an amazing life until one day Yuki and other California Japanese Americans get sent to internment camps
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
An old woman demonstrates the value of her age when she solves a warlord's three riddles and saves her village from destruction.
Grades 4-6
Teachers edition
It's a powerful combination of the world's best literature and superior reading and skills instruction! "Prentice Hall Literature Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes" helps students grasp the power and beauty that lies within the written word, while the program's research-based reading approach ensures that no child is left behind
Children's author, Yoshiko Uchido, 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
Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to America in the early 1900s.
Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers; Dr. Kaneda, a respected community leader who is destroyed by the adopted land he loves. All are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps.
Although tragedy strikes each of them, the same spirit and strength that brought her to America enable Hana to survive.
A Japanese American family return to their ordinary life after being relocated during World War II. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship
When twelve-year-old Rinko learns that a neighbor's daughter is coming from Japan to marry a stranger twice her age, she sets out to change this arrangement and gains new insights into love and adult problems.
A collection of fourteen tales from Japan representing universal folk themes.
Fourteen stories representing a variety of Japanese folklore.
