[PDF] The Wakame Gatherers eBook

Author : Holly Thompson
Publisher : Shen's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781643794594

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A touching and timely story about a biracial girl who is excited to spend time with her American grandmother and her Japanese grandmother. Nanami has two grandmothers: Bāchan, who lives with Nanami's family in Japan, and Gram, who lives in Maine. When Gram visits Japan, Bāchan takes her and Nanami on a trip to the seaside to gather wakame, a long, curvy seaweed that grows near the shore. While the three assemble their equipment and walk to the beach, Bāchan explains how wakame and other seaweeds are used in Japan. Gram shares stories about how seaweeds are used in Maine, and Nanami translates for them both. By the end of the day, Nanami's two grandmothers discover that they have much in common despite being from countries that fought in World War II, which they both remember. Looking out across the beach at surfers, dog walkers, and seaweed gatherers, they share an appreciation of this precious peace. Holly Thompson's beautiful prose captures the exuberance of a young girl who easily traverses two cultures and languages. It also illuminates the love and understanding that grows between two older women who are so different, yet share an unbreakable bond. Kazumi Wilds's vivid paintings make the Japanese landscape and the rocky shores of Maine come alive, reminding us all that we share this earth and the peace that we create.

Author : Willamarie Moore
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1462906249

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**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!** A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place—and ways to bring it to life! Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, learn some Japanese songs. Two friends, a boy from the country and a girl from the city, take us on a tour of their beloved land through their eyes. They introduce us to their homes, families, favorite places, school life, holidays and more! Celebrate the cherry blossom festival Learn traditional Japanese songs and poems Make easy recipes like mochi (New Year's sweet rice cakes) and okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza or pancakes) Create origami frogs, samurai helmets and more! Beyond the fun and fascinating facts, you'll also learn about the spirit that makes Japan one-of-a-kind. This is a multicultural children's book for families to treasure together.

Author : Holly Thompson
Publisher : Ember
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0385739788

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Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There Kana spends hours under the hot sun tending to her family's mikan orange groves. Kana's mixed heritage makes it hard to fit in at first, especially under the critical eye of her traditional grandmother, who has never accepted Kana's father. But as the summer unfolds, Kana gets to know her relatives, Japan, and village culture, and she begins to process the pain and guilt she feels about the tragedy back home. Then news about a friend sends her world spinning out of orbit all over again.

Author : Holly Thompson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375898352

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Emma Karas was raised in Japan; it's the country she calls home. But when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, Emma's family moves to a town outside Lowell, Massachusetts, to stay with Emma's grandmother while her mom undergoes treatment. Emma feels out of place in the United States.She begins to have migraines, and longs to be back in Japan. At her grandmother's urging, she volunteers in a long-term care center to help Zena, a patient with locked-in syndrome, write down her poems. There, Emma meets Samnang, another volunteer, who assists elderly Cambodian refugees. Weekly visits to the care center, Zena's poems, dance, and noodle soup bring Emma and Samnang closer, until Emma must make a painful choice: stay in Massachusetts, or return home early to Japan.

Author : Holly Thompson
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0807561134

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After his father dies, Kai experiences all kinds of emotions: sadness, anger, fear, guilt. Sometimes they crash and mix together. Other times, there are no emotions at all—just flatness. As Kai and his family adjust to life without Dad, the waves still roll in. But with the help of friends and one another, they learn to cope—and, eventually, heal. A lyrical story about grieving for anyone encountering loss.

Author : Sandra Moore
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1462917232

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**Winner of the 2015 Gelett Burgess Award for Best Intercultural Book** **Winner of the 2015 Silver Evergreen Medal for World Peace** This true children's story is told by a little bonsai tree, called Miyajima, that lived with the same family in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for more than 300 years before being donated to the National Arboretum in Washington DC in 1976 as a gesture of friendship between America and Japan to celebrate the American Bicentennial. From the Book: "In 1625, when Japan was a land of samurai and castles, I was a tiny pine seedling. A man called Itaro Yamaki picked me from the forest where I grew and took me home with him. For more than three hundred years, generations of the Yamaki family trimmed and pruned me into a beautiful bonsai tree. In 1945, our household survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 1976, I was donated to the National Arboretum in Washington D.C., where I still live today--the oldest and perhaps the wisest tree in the bonsai museum."

Author : Ina Cumpiano
Publisher : Children's Book Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Bilingual books
ISBN : 0892392096

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Quinito's neighbors all have important roles to play in the community.

Author : Suzanne Kamata
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781932279337

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Women around the world ponder the unique joys and challenges of raising children across two or more cultures.

Author : Holly Thompson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1627791353

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In a Japanese seaside neighborhood lives Jason Parker: a sixth grader one year older than his classmates a stinking foreigner to some classmates an orange belt in aikido a big brother Jason Parker is just a boy trying to get through his days with calm and courage. If only everyone around him would let him. This is a beautifully spare novel in verse about one boy's life-a story that will resonate with anyone who has ever struggled to fit in.

Author : Maria Cristina Brusca
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1993-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805029192

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An account of a little girl's idyllic summer at her grandparents' ranch on the pampas of Argentina.