Waka T Brown

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While I Was AwayPaperback, 21 December 2021

While I Was Away
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Reading Age
Ages: 8-12
Grade Levels
3-7
Print Length
336 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Date Published
21 Dec 2021
ISBN-10
0063017121
ISBN-13
9780063017122

Description

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 Details

Audience:
Ages: 8-12
Author:
Waka T Brown
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 December 2021
Dimensions:
19.05 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 3-7
ISBN-10:
0063017121
ISBN-13:
9780063017122
Language:
English
Pages:
336
Weight:
204.12 gm

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