| Barn Cat Contributor(s): Mori, Kyoko (Author) |
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ISBN: 1936846403 ISBN-13: 9781936846405 Publisher: Gemma Open Door OUR PRICE: $9.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce - Fiction | Family Life - Siblings |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 790 |
| Series: Gemma Open Door |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 4.43" W x 7.04" (0.20 lbs) 100 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Hi Interest/Low Vocabulary |
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| Publisher Description:
"Kyoko Mori is one of the world's most inimitable writers." ―Howard Norman, The Bird Artist and What is Left the Daughter A young girl leaves Tokyo with her mother in 1979, carrying her pink suitcase to a new home, a new father and sister, on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Thirty-three years later, her mother's belongings are found packed into boxes, her furniture draped in white sheets. Without so much as a note, a mother leaves these grown sisters to figure out where she has gone. What happens when people lose their way home? Like a little barn cat, they grab onto a second family... and start again. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mori, Kyoko: - Kyoko Mori is the author of two novels for young readers, One Bird and Shizuko's Daughter, the latter of which was chosen as a Best Young Children's Book by The New York Times, She has also written two memoirs for adults, Polite Lies and The Dream of Water. Born in Kobe, Japan, Mori moved to the United States as a teenager. She teaches writing at Harvard University. |