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While I was away / Waka T. Brown.

Brown, Waka T., (author.).

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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?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063017115
  • ISBN: 0063017113
  • Physical Description: 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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Target Audience Note:
Ages 8-12.

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Subject: Brown, Waka T. > Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Japanese American children > Juvenile literature.
Grandmothers > Juvenile literature.
Culture shock > Juvenile literature.
Intercultural communication > Juvenile literature.
Tokyo (Japan) > Social life and customs > Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans.
Families.
Grandparent and child.
Chinese characters > Japan.
Tokyo (Japan).
Américains d'origine japonaise > Biographies > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Enfants américains d'origine japonaise > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Grands-mères > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Conflit culturel > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Tōkyō (Japon) > Mœurs et coutumes > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Family / Multigenerational.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / People & Places / Asia.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / New Experience.
Culture shock.
Grandmothers.
Intercultural communication.
Japanese American children.
Japanese Americans.
Manners and customs.
Japan > Tokyo.
Japanese Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans.
Japanese national characteristics > Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction.
Culture conflict > Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans > Fiction.
Japanese national characteristics > Fiction.
Grandmothers > Fiction.
Culture conflict > Fiction.
Tokyo (Japan) > Juvenile fiction.
Tokyo (Japan) > Fiction.
Genre: Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Children's stories.
Autobiography
Biography
Personal Narrative
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.

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