Naomi’s Road by Joy Kogawa [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
03 Mar, by in Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
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Sookan, the protagonist from 
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