The promised year

Ten-year-old Keiko leaves Japan to spend a year as her uncle's guest in California. Homesick at first, she struggles to adjust to life in the United States when her uncle is preoccupied with growing carnations and doesn't like the cat she has adopted. But the cat saves the flowers from th...

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Main Author: Uchida, Yoshiko.
Other Authors: Hutchinson, William, 1916-1997,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1959]
Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
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