Flying the Dragon (Hardcover)

from abbylibrarian

This is a nicely written story about the immigrant experience, told in alternating perspectives: Hiroshi (new to American from Japan) and his cousin Skye (Japanese-American, but not quite fitting in anywhere). Young readers will definitely identify with the realistic and well-researched character...

from fingerpost

Skye is the daughter of a white American mother and a Japanese father. Immediately after their marriage, they moved to Virginia and never looked back, so Skye knows very little about her Japanese heritage, and has never met any of the relatives in Japan. Suddenly her parents tell her she must go ...

from akl5

Skye wonders why suddenly her dad begins acting Japanese again: after living "like an American" for many years, all of a sudden he asks for Japanese food, talks to Skye in Japanese in public, and he even decides to enroll Skye in Japanese language school. When his plans collide with Skye's much a...