*A fun activity included in every book!*
A Junior Library Guild Fall 2017 Selection
An Amazon's Best Children's Books of 2017
A Beverly Clearly Children's Choice Award Nominee
An Evanston Public Library's 101 Great Books for Kids List 2017
A Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books 2017
A 2017 Nerdy Book Club Award Winner
A We Are Kid Lit Collective 2019 Summer Reading List Pick
**The first book in a new chapter book series featuring a spunky
Japanese-American heroine!
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Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and
top-notch mess-maker!
She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things
first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could do something before
Sophie**--**something special, something different. The New Year
approaches, and as the Toguchi family gathers in Los Angeles to
celebrate, Jasmine is jealous that her sister gets to help roll mochi
balls by hand with the women. Her mom says that Jasmine is still too
young to join in, so she hatches a plan to help the men pound the mochi
rice instead. Surely her sister has never done THAT before.
But pounding mochi is traditionally reserved for boys. And the mochi
hammer is heavier than it looks. Can Jasmine build her case and her
mochi-making muscles in time for New Year's Day?