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Author Brown, Waka T., author.

Title While I was away / Waka T. Brown.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  JF BROWN, W.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J FICTION BROWN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J BROWN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Children's Department  J BROWN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  J BROWN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J F BROWN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J BROWN    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Children's Department  J BROWN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Teen  TEEN BROWN, WAKA    Check Shelf
Description 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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).
Culture shock. (OCoLC)fst00885117
Grandmothers. (OCoLC)fst00946353
Japanese American children. (OCoLC)fst00981412
Japanese Americans. (OCoLC)fst00981441
Japan -- Tokyo. (OCoLC)fst01204835
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780063017115 (hardcover)
0063017113 (hardcover)
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