While I was away

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  • Author: Brown, Waka Takahashi
    Contributor:

    Hidaka, Chieko

    Summary:

    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.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies
    Original Publisher: [New York] , HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781799948209

    ,

    9781799948216

    ,

    1799948218

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Hidaka, Chieko

Abstract

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.

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Biographies and autobiographies
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[New York]

HarperCollins

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