This time will be different / Misa Sugiura

By: Sugiura, Misa [author]Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 386 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9780062473448; 0062473441Subject(s): Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction | Japanese Americans -- Juvenile fiction | Family-owned business enterprises -- Juvenile fiction | Florists -- Juvenile fiction | Flower arrangement -- Juvenile fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction | California -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction Summary: "Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her mom decides to sell the shop -- to the family who swindled CJ's grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ's family, friends, and their entire Northern California community; and for the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for." --
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"Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her mom decides to sell the shop -- to the family who swindled CJ's grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ's family, friends, and their entire Northern California community; and for the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for." --

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