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In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream,
a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and
ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she
experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants
who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to
dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that
irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play. So
when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King
and I, she's thrilled . . . until she starts to hear grumbles from
her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it's
an Asian play with Asian characters. Is this all people see when
they see her? Is this the only kind of success they'll let her
have-one that they can tear down or use race to belittle?
Disheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new
dream: showing everyone what she's made of. Waka T. Brown, author
of While I Was Away, delivers an uplifting coming-of-age story
about a Japanese American girl's fight to make space for herself in
a world that claims to celebrate everyone's differences but doesn't
always follow through.
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Dream, Annie, Dream
Waka T Brown
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In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream,
a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and
ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she
experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants
who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to
dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she’s channeling
that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play.
So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production
of The King and I, she’s thrilled . . . until she starts to
hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got
the part because it’s an Asian play with Asian characters. Is
this all people see when they see her? Is this the only kind of
success they’ll let her have—one that they can tear down or use
race to belittle? Disheartened but determined, Annie channels her
hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what she’s made of. Waka
T. Brown, author of While I Was Away, delivers an uplifting
coming-of-age story about a Japanese American girl’s fight to
make space for herself in a world that claims to celebrate
everyone’s differences but doesn’t always follow through.
Named one of New York Public Library's & Bank Street's Best
Books of the Year! The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly's
Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut
author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s
Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her family's
roots. 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. 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?
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