{"id":7796,"date":"1997-03-03T16:41:27","date_gmt":"1997-03-03T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:33:52","slug":"one-bird-by-kyoko-mori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/","title":{"rendered":"One Bird by Kyoko Mori [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/One-Bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33017\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/One-Bird.jpg\" alt=\"One Bird\" width=\"315\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>At 15, young Megumi is left behind to live with her cold father and difficult grandmother when her desperately unhappy mother suddenly leaves the family. In Japan, tradition dictates that children must remain with the father in the case of separation or divorce. Children are not allowed any contact \u2013\u00a0whether by mail, phone, or in person \u2013\u00a0with the absent mother until they turn 22 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of a local veterinarian and an older childhood friend who has also lost his mother, Megumi learns to fight against tradition and establish her own independence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6991\" title=\"One Bird\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/one-bird.jpg\" alt=\"One Bird\" width=\"129\" height=\"197\" \/>At 15, young Megumi is left behind to live with her cold father and difficult grandmother when her desperately unhappy mother suddenly leaves the family. In Japan, tradition dictates that children must remain with the father in the case of separation or divorce. Children are not allowed any contact \u2013 whether by mail, phone, or in person \u2013 with the absent mother until they turn 22 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of a local veterinarian and an older childhood friend who has also lost his mother, Megumi learns to fight against tradition and establish her own independence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,76,426,30,6535,31],"tags":[6608,58,10,11,51,2964,129,5386,39,4867],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-japanese","category-japanese-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-kyoko-mori","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-one-bird","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-what-do-i-read-next-multicultural-literature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One Bird by Kyoko Mori [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Bird by Kyoko Mori [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At 15, young Megumi is left behind to live with her cold father and difficult grandmother when her desperately unhappy mother suddenly leaves the family. In Japan, tradition dictates that children must remain with the father in the case of separation or divorce. Children are not allowed any contact \u2013 whether by mail, phone, or in person \u2013 with the absent mother until they turn 22 years of age.  With the help of a local veterinarian and an older childhood friend who has also lost his mother, Megumi learns to fight against tradition and establish her own independence.  Review: &quot;Asian American Titles,&quot; What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997  Readers: Middle Grade, Young Adult  Published: 1995\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"1997-03-03T20:41:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-17T14:33:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/One-Bird.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"315\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"475\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmithsonianAPA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"One Bird by Kyoko Mori [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"One Bird by Kyoko Mori [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon","og_description":"At 15, young Megumi is left behind to live with her cold father and difficult grandmother when her desperately unhappy mother suddenly leaves the family. In Japan, tradition dictates that children must remain with the father in the case of separation or divorce. Children are not allowed any contact \u2013 whether by mail, phone, or in person \u2013 with the absent mother until they turn 22 years of age.  With the help of a local veterinarian and an older childhood friend who has also lost his mother, Megumi learns to fight against tradition and establish her own independence.  Review: \"Asian American Titles,\" What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997  Readers: Middle Grade, Young Adult  Published: 1995","og_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/","og_site_name":"BookDragon","article_published_time":"1997-03-03T20:41:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-08-17T14:33:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":315,"height":475,"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/One-Bird.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmithsonianAPA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/","name":"One Bird by Kyoko Mori [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website"},"datePublished":"1997-03-03T20:41:27+00:00","dateModified":"2015-08-17T14:33:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/one-bird-by-kyoko-mori\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"One Bird by Kyoko Mori [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/","name":"BookDragon","description":"Books for the Diverse Reader","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d","name":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/@SmithsonianAPA"],"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author\/riemert\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38644,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions\/38644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}