Book Descriptions
for A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Eleven-year-old Rinko lives in California during the Depression. She discovers the nature of racism and the prejudice against people born in Japan like her parents and aunt. (9-13 years)
CCBC Choices 1981 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1981. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
"An ingenious simplicity and grace mark the first-person telling of the story of eleven-year-old Rinko and her Japanese family in Berkeley, California. Times are hard for everyone in 1935, but being Japanese is for Rinko an added burden. . . . Compared with the many worldly-wise contemporary book heroines, Rinko in her guilelessness is genuine and refreshing, and her worries and concerns seem wholly natural, honest and convincing".--The Horn Book.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.