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Friendship Fiction Japan Fiction Japanese Americans Fiction Japanese Americans Juvenile fiction Olympic Games (32nd : 2020 : Tokyo, Japan) Fiction Shared housing Japan Tokyo Fiction Student exchange programs Fiction Tokyo (Japan) Fiction Tokyo (Japan) Juvenile fiction Young women FictionAbe, Julie
Summary: "Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back home. Her hopes are quickly dashed when, all too soon, she realizes that life in Japan is just like being in California: her sisters are old enough to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ABEJean, Emiko
Summary: When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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Summary: "When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BECShibutani, Maia
Summary: Accompanying their journalist parents to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, twelve-year-old Andy Kudo and his eleven-year-old sister Mika find themselves immersed in an augmented reality game developed by a former Olympic medalist, that brings players together from all over the world to search Tokyo for virtual medals and clues to the secretive creator's identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHIBrown, Waka Takahashi
Summary: When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she cannot 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 grandmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021