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. 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?ĭisheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what she’s made of. 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. So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, she’s thrilled. All students must read and write in Japanese and no one can fly the Korea. Yet they live their lives under Japanese occupation. And at the start of seventh grade, she’s channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play. Sun-hee and her older brother Tae-yul are proud of their Korean heritage. 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.Īs the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big.
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