Jasmine Toguchi

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3.6 stars

Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.

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Jasmine worries that she will be the only one with no talent to share in the school talent show until her mother brings out her taiko drum.

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"Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi can hardly wait for her family vacation to Japan. But when they arrive, Jasmine finds herself unable to get away from her older sister Sophie's crabby attitude. Plus, there's so much about Japan she didn't know, and she seems to be getting in trouble right and left. Will Jasmine be able to cheer up her sister AND find her footing in a new country?"--Publisher marketing.

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When Jasmine and family visit Kabo, the Japanese village where her grandmother grew up, she is homesick and angry with her older sister for not playing with her, but when they start to compromise, they discover ways to bridge their differences. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make a folding fan.