A Jar of DreamsGrowing up in California during the depression isn't easy for eleven-year-old Rinko. She desperately wants to fit in and be like everyone else, but instead she is ridiculed and made to feel different because she is Japanese. But when Aunt Waka comes to visit, and brings with her the old-fashioned wisdom of Japan, she teaches Rinko the importance of her Japanese heritage, and the value of her own strengths and dreams, in this warm and touching story. |
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User Review - KendisG.B4 - LibraryThingThere is a young girl named Romika.Romika is 13 years old . Her family traveled to America from Japan. She goes through hard problems in school and out school. When she walks by the laundry store to ... Read full review
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User Review - skstiles612 - LibraryThingRinko is growing up in 1935 California. She believes that America is supposed to be the land of the free. However, she doesn't feel like she belongs here even if she was born here. She is not proud of ... Read full review
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| Title | A Jar of Dreams A Margaret K. McElderry book Jar of Dreams Mkm |
| Author | Yoshiko Uchida |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Atheneum, 1981 |
| ISBN | 0689502109, 9780689502101 |
| Length | 131 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Juvenile Fiction / Family / General Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / General Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / Asian American |
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