While I was away / Waka T. Brown.

By:

Brown, Waka Takahashi

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]Edition: 1st edDescription: 310 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780063017115

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

LOC classification:

PZ7.1.B7976 Whi 2021

Summary: "Whem Waka's mother suspects her twelve-year-old daughter can't understand basic Japanese, she makes a drastic decision to ship Waka to Tokyo to live with her strict grandmother and reconnect with the culture and master the language. Goodbye friends, end-of-sixth-grade parties, and fun, and goodbye summer vacation. Plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and sent halfway across the globe, where her reading levels are embarrassingly low, Waka embarks on what feels like the hardest five months of her life: learning an incredibly complicated writing system called kanji, dealing with the social politics of classmates who think she's illiterate, and attempting to understand her complicated Obaasama. Even though this is the country her parents came from Waka has never felt more like an outsider"--Jacket flap.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
	Beverly Middle School	FIC BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		705520
	Beverly Middle School	FIC BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		705521

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"Whem Waka's mother suspects her twelve-year-old daughter can't understand basic Japanese, she makes a drastic decision to ship Waka to Tokyo to live with her strict grandmother and reconnect with the culture and master the language. Goodbye friends, end-of-sixth-grade parties, and fun, and goodbye summer vacation. Plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and sent halfway across the globe, where her reading levels are embarrassingly low, Waka embarks on what feels like the hardest five months of her life: learning an incredibly complicated writing system called kanji, dealing with the social politics of classmates who think she's illiterate, and attempting to understand her complicated Obaasama. Even though this is the country her parents came from Waka has never felt more like an outsider"--Jacket flap.

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5-8 Follett School Solutions.

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