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Summary: Another touching book I have to recommend to all readers
Review: 'So far from the bamboo grove' is a must-read before this sequel. Both books are sad, touching and many emotions held within. My eyes became misty at the end of 'My brother, my sister and I'. I was touched, moved, the instant the book ended, recounting all that had happened to the Kawashimas. I encourage everyone to read this wonderful biography.
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Summary: Fantastic Book, Greatly Enjoyable
Review: Being assigned "My Brother, My Sister, and I" as summer reading, I didn't start this book with a positive mind. As I continued reading, I noticed the fast pace and events that would keep you on your toes. This book does a fabulous job illustrating Yoko's emotions, feelings and ideas throughout her stuggles and triumphs. Definitely a "5-Star" rating!
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Summary: A heart warmed book that will make you laugh and cry.
Review: I am not a very warm and fuzy person that crys and shows emotions very ofton, but when I read this book I cryed ,laughed, and shared this wonderful story with my whole family.this story will change your thinking of homeless and war victoms.
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Summary: This is my all time favorite book!
Review: I couldn't put down this book! The struggles and tribulations of this family will make all who read this book feel lucky to live they way you do. I absolutely recommend it!
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Summary: A great sequel to a good book!
Review: I have already made a five-star review of So Far from the Bamboo Grove, and this book just takes the cake. I've read good, sad, books, but I've never liked them. BUt this book makes me feel so with the characters and you really get into the book. It is about a girl, her sister and her brother trying to survive on the streets. Yoko gets teased at school, their house burned down, and they are accused of arson and murder. It is a great book, and I urge you to read it.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. One of my favorite books I have read. That says a lot because I have read lots of books.I first read the book in 3rd grade and have reread it twice. I highly reccommend it.
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Summary: moving sequal
Review: I recently reread this book in preparation for teaching my class of seventh graders. One must read Far From the Bamboo Grove before reading this one. It is heartwrenching to see the twists and turns in the life of the Kawashimas. But as brother Hideyo says," ... the Kawashima children can become a few drops of water in the ocean and make ripples that will spread humanity." My students are in awe of this family's struggle to survive. They are more appreciative of their lives and their parents. Yoko Kawashima Watkins is our hero. This is a book that will not be forgotten.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I think that this book was wonderful. It makes you go through a wide variety of emotions, and when you think of how people used to live during WW2 and during all the wars, you realize how lucky you are.
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Summary: My Brother, My Sister, and I
Review: In the sequel to So far from the Bamboo Grove, My Brother, My Sister, and I by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, the author takes on a difficult task by informing the reader about her depressing childhood life. My Brother, My Sister, and I is an emotional novel based on the deprived and unfortunate life of the main character, Yoko, her brother, and sister during the holocaust of World War II. Yoko is a thirteen year-old, parentless child attending a school where she is endlessly being teased by the girls for her being destitute and poor. Yoko is an intelligent student who tries to ignore all the mockery being turned towards her. After the warehouse her family lived in burns down, Yoko, her brother, and sister are homeless and living temporarily in the hospital where Ko is nursed after she fell from the burning warehouse to save the family treasure. In addition to having no parents, being teased by the accompanying students, and owning only a small amount of money, Ko's knee will be disabled forever. Hideyo, Yoko's brother, has to work two jobs and Yoko must sell Ko's garments in order to support the family and pay off the substantial medical bill for Ko's surgery. My Brother, My Sister, and I is a poignant and touching novel about how the power and effect of the love of one's family can and will overcome any great obstacle in life. I enjoyed this book very much, for, the author told her real life story with such detail and vividness that I sometimes found it had to believe that a specific event actually took place. I enjoyed how the characters in the previous novel grew emotionally, from fretful young children, to matured, young adults. The change in living in a wonderful house in the bamboo grove to living out in the streets will teach readers to respect and be content with what is already out in front of you. I recommend this book to anyone who wishes an emotional novel and a bit of history. This book is for anyone of any gender of ethnicity. There is not a significant amount of vocabulary and is great for sixth to seventh graders who would like to stay on a simple, comfortable reading level. Though personally, I would like this novel to present itself with more of a challenge in vocabulary.
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Summary: Wonderful . . .
Review: My Bother, my Sister, and I is a powerful tale of a courageous family! What Yoko and her siblings go through is amazing, and while reading I felt as if I had been with her and gone through everything she had. I couldn't put the book down. My Brother, My Sister, and I is as moving a tale as it's prequal. I strongly recommend it if you have read So Far from the Bamboo Grove.
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