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Summary: Melanie Tamaki follows her mother to the Half World, a place where people sit in limbo between the human world and the afterlife, and ...
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Summary: Melanie Tamaki follows her mother to the Half World, a place where people sit in limbo between the human world and the afterlife, and ...
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Summary: Four Japanese American sisters, growing up in Alberta, Canada, where their optimistic father has decided to start a rice farm, are transformed by a ...
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Summary: Celebrating cultural differences as a privilege, Chorus of Mushrooms explores the shifts and collisions of culture through the lives of three generations of women ... Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canada; Co-Winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award; and winner of the ...
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What Do Children and Young Adults Read Next? : A Reader's Guide to Fiction and Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults. 2012, p298-298.
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Half World (New York: Viking, 2010) Afterlife; Death; Fantasy 13 - 16+ Melanie, 14-Year-Old, Outcast; Mr. Glueskin, Villain, Kidnapper Indeterminate Fourteen-year-old Melanie is an overweight outcast being raised ...