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Wei can hardly believe his luck — he is about to become an American citizen and lose a tooth on the same day! What starts as double luck becomes double trouble, however, when he loses his tooth in front of the federal courthouse.
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"My heart beats in two places." So begins the tale of Jangmi, a young girl who is preparing to leave her home in Korea (382 Shin Dang Dong) for a new home in Massachusetts (112 Foster Terrace).
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Nanami is nervous about translating for her American grandmother, Gram, and her Japanese grandmother, Baachan — especially when the conversation takes a turn towards World War II.
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This is the story of two Mrs. Gibsons, a tall African American woman from Tennessee, and a petite Japanese woman from Gifu. While there were many differences in the way they dressed, cooked, and expressed their feelings, the two Mrs.
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All the more moving in its restraint, this picture-book account of a fictional family reveals, with gentle dignity, a sad chapter in American history.
At home, Masako speaks Japanese and sips green tea with her parents. But at her friends' houses near San Francisco, May speaks English and enjoys pancakes and tea with milk and sugar. When May's parents decide to return to Japan, she feels lost.
Cammie attends the private Gallagher Academy, a boarding school for spies in training. The only problem is that it's an all-girls school.
Eleven-year-old Harriet follows her spy route every day, recording her findings (findings for her eyes only) in her notebook. When her classmates find the notebook, Harriet has to deal with the consequences.
Even super-spy James Bond was a teenager once. In this series, we meet James as a 14-year old boarding-school student, long before he became the suave jet-setter we know and love.
This book is part of the highly successful series that features Alex Rider, a British teenage spy. In this entry, Alex is weary of the dangerous spy life, but after he meets little Paul in the hospital, he is back at work.