Brown, Waka Takahashi. <br/><br/>
While I was away / 
Waka T. Brown. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York, NY :  Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,  [2021] 
 - 310 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2022  School Library Journal, February 2021  Booklist starred, January 2021  Publishers Weekly, December 2007  Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2020  Kirkus Review, November 2020 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/> 4.4.  5-8  Follett School Solutions. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780063017115 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020945260 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Japanese American children--Fiction.<br/>Grandmothers--Fiction.<br/>Culture conflict--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.1.B7976  / Whi 2021 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]