{"id":7930,"date":"1997-03-04T21:06:41","date_gmt":"1997-03-05T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:39:20","slug":"chopsticks-from-america-by-elaine-hosozawa-nagano-illustrated-by-masayuki-miyata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/chopsticks-from-america-by-elaine-hosozawa-nagano-illustrated-by-masayuki-miyata\/","title":{"rendered":"Chopsticks from America by Elaine Hosozawa-Nagano, illustrated by Masayuki Miyata [in What Do I Read Next? 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Little by little, the two children adapt, and even enjoy, their new environment.<\/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>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/chopsticks-from-america.jpg\" alt=\"Chopsticks from America\" title=\"Chopsticks from America\" width=\"134\" height=\"139\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6879\" \/>Tiffany and Kevin, two Japanese American children, move to Japan because of their father\u2019s job. 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