Yoshiko Uchida

An old woman demonstrates the value of her age when she solves a warlord's three riddles and saves her village from destruction.

After facing danger to help a young woman, a poor farmer receives a magic purse that always refills itself with gold.

Rinko is dismayed at having to spend part of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, but discovers pleasant surprises waiting for her.

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

A wolf and a thief mistake each other for the "terrible leak" they overhear an old man saying he fears more than anything else in the world.

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.

Two foolish cats go to the old monkey of the mountain to settle their quarrel.

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 young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.

Twelve stories representing a variety of Japanese folklore.

Miyo, a young Japanese American, helps her neighbor find a home in the country for her pet.

Seeking a new life in nineteenth-century California with his samurai father, a young Japanese finds it difficult to adjust to the idea of being a farmer and not a samurai.

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

With the help of his father's good-luck cap and a gift from his friend, a potter, Makoto finally finds something in which he can be first.

A gift of money from an unknown donor on her birthday and a mysterious letter found in a closet set a thirteen-year-old Japanese girl wondering about the whereabouts of her father who supposedly died when she was two.

The new high speed train wasn't supposed to stop at Sugi Village, but that schedule didn't take into account Miki, the goat.

A painful lesson teaches Miya that social standing and affluence have little to do with being happy.