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020    0063017148 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 
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099    eAudiobook hoopla 
099    eAudiobook hoopla 
100 1  Brown, Waka T.,|eauthor. 
245 10 While I was away|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cWaka T. 
       Brown. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bQuill Tree Books,|c2021. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
300    1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 02 min.)) :
       |bdigital. 
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338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
344    digital|hdigital recording|2rda 
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506    Digital content provided by hoopla. 
511 0  Read by Chieko Hidaka. 
520    The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly's Blackbird Fly in 
       this empowering middle-grade memoir from debut author Waka
       T. Brown, who takes listeners on a journey to 1980s Japan,
       where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her family's
       roots.  When 12-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 
       good-bye 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? 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Japanese American children|vJuvenile literature. 
650  0 Grandmothers|vJuvenile literature. 
650  0 Culture shock|vJuvenile literature. 
650  0 Japanese Americans|vJuvenile literature. 
651  0 Tokyo (Japan)|vJuvenile literature. 
700 1  Hidaka, Chieko,|enarrator. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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