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Waka T. Brown While I Was Away (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- While I Was Away
- Publication Name
- While I Was Away
- Title
- While I Was Away
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0063017121
- EAN
- 9780063017122
- ISBN
- 9780063017122
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Juvenile Fiction
- Topic
- Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes)
- Release Year
- 2022
- Release Date
- 12/05/2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 7.6in
- Item Weight
- 7.9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Named one of New York Public Library's & Bank Street's Best Books of the Year! The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly's Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her family's roots. When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand the basic Japanese they speak to her, they make a 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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0063017121
ISBN-13
9780063017122
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25050014315
Product Key Features
Book Title
While I Was Away
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes)
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Juvenile Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.6in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Grade from
Third Grade
Grade to
Seventh Grade
Reviews
Brown's debut explores having one foot in two cultures in an age-appropriate memoir. This personal story offers readers a glimpse at Japanese and American cultural differences while stressing that what makes things different is also what makes them unique., Poignant and realistic. Today's tweens will see many similarities between [Waka's] experiences and their own. Immigrants from any culture will identify with the difficulties of negotiating a new country and school., Fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Jasmine Warga will enjoy Brown's honest exploration of differences between American and Japanese culture and her sometimes bumpy journey to fit in. This memoir artfully depicts Brown's experience as a child who feels pulled between two cultures. A welcome addition to any middle grade collection., Brown's story is very compelling, reads like a novel, and is extremely well written. Don't miss this wonderful book., "Conversational and accessible. An emotional, contemplative tale of risking and growing." -- Kirkus Reviews "[An] engaging memoir." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Brown's debut explores having one foot in two cultures in an age-appropriate memoir. This personal story offers readers a glimpse at Japanese and American cultural differences while stressing that what makes things different is also what makes them unique." -- Publishers Weekly "Fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Jasmine Warga will enjoy Brown's honest exploration of differences between American and Japanese culture and her sometimes bumpy journey to fit in. This memoir artfully depicts Brown's experience as a child who feels pulled between two cultures. A welcome addition to any middle grade collection." -- School Library Journal "Poignant and realistic. Today's tweens will see many similarities between [Waka's] experiences and their own. Immigrants from any culture will identify with the difficulties of negotiating a new country and school. " -- Booklist (starred review) "Brown's story is very compelling, reads like a novel, and is extremely well written. Don't miss this wonderful book." -- Portland Book Review "Waka fills her book with all the pathos, yearning, frustrations, and humor you might find in a middle grade novel. The important difference? It's all true. It's all real. It's all enthralling. A thorough delight." -- Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production (SLJ blog)
Dewey Decimal
305.8956/073
Intended Audience
Juvenile Audience
Dewey Edition
23
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