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Title While I was away / Waka T. Brown.
Author Brown, Waka Takahashi, author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
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 Alafaya  J FIC BRO    Check Shelves
 Eatonville  J FIC BRO    Check Shelves
 North Orange  J FIC BRO    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J FIC BRO    Check Shelves
 South Trail  J FIC BRO    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Summary When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese they speak to her, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime. In Japan, Waka struggles with reading and writing in kanji, doesn't quite mesh with her complicated and distant Obaasama, and gets made fun of by the students in her Japanese public-school classes. Even though this is the country her parents came from, Waka has never felt more like an outsider. If she's always been the "smart Japanese girl" in America but is now the "dumb foreigner" in Japan, where is home? And who will Waka be when she finds it?
Audience Ages 8-12.
Subject Brown, Waka Takahashi -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese American children -- Juvenile literature.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile literature.
Culture shock -- Juvenile literature.
Tokyo (Japan) -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans.
Families.
Grandparent and child.
Chinese characters -- Japan.
Tokyo (Japan).
Genre Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 9780063017115 (hardcover) : $16.99
0063017113 (hardcover)
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