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Tea with Milk
By Say, Allen
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39590-495-4
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1999
K-Gr 6 Continuing the story he started in Grandfather's Journey (Houghton, 1993), Say explores familiar themes of cultural connection and disconnection. He focuses on his mother Masako, or May, as she prefers to be called, who, after graduating from high school in California, unwillingly moves with her parents to their native Japan. She is homesick for her native country and misses American food. She rebels against her parents, who force her to repeat high school so that she can learn "her own language"; the other students tease her for being "g...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
