Waka T Brown

The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura

Empfohlen 8 bis 12 Jahre. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 272 Seiten
ISBN 0063230763
EAN 9780063230767
Veröffentlicht Juli 2023
Verlag/Hersteller HarperCollins
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Beschreibung

In this modern-day retelling of the Japanese folktale The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku, twelve-year-old Melony befriends a wish-granting demon who encourages her to rebel against her overprotective parents, all while using her for his own evil scheme.

Portrait

Waka T. Brown was the first American born in her family. She is a Stanford graduate with a master's degree in secondary education. She's currently an instructor at the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), authoring curriculum on several international topics and winning the Association for Asian Studies' national Franklin Buchanan Prize. She's also been awarded the US–Japan Foundation and EngageAsia's national 2019 Elgin Heinz Outstanding Teacher award for her groundbreaking endeavors in teaching about US-Japan relations to high school students in Japan and promoting cultural exchange awareness. While I Was Away is her debut book. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

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