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02035aam a2200349 i 4500 001 A4D4E6A09F7611ECBC2E855C59ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220309010020 008 211229t20222021nyua d 000 0aeng d 020 $a 0063017121 (paperback) 020 $a 9780063017122 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)1290311359 040 $a UUC $b eng $e rda $c UUC $d JUH $d SILO 100 1 $a Brown, Waka T., $e author. 245 10 $a While I was away / $c Waka T. Brown. 250 $a First paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2022. 300 $a 310, 11 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a 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? 521 1 $a Ages 10-15 600 10 $a Brown, Waka T. 650 0 $a Japanese Americans. 650 0 $a Grandmothers. 650 0 $a Culture shock. 650 0 $a Manners and customs. 650 0 $a Intercultural communication. 651 0 $a Tokyo (Japan) 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Personal narratives. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20220309011733.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4D4E6A09F7611ECBC2E855C59ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search