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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
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Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
22) North of nowhere
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Candlewick Press
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After her grandfather mysteriously disappears, Mia and her mother go to the seaside village of Porthaven to help her grandmother, but Mia begins to feel an urgency about finding her grandfather when a girl she tries to befriend remains aloof and gives strange excuses about why she is stuck at home.
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While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
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2019.
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Kimi Nakamura loves fashion and designing clothes, jewelry, and accessories for her friends, but her mother, a professional graphic designer with a long list of clients, wants her to be a serious artist, and is furious when she discovers Kimi has dropped her fine arts class; so Kimi is relieved to be able to visit her normally estranged grandparents in Kyoto during spring break--but what begins as an escape becomes a way to learn about her mother...
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