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Age Range
4 - 8
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
1987-04-27
Page Count
32
Publisher
Clarion Books
Grade Level
Pre-K - 3rd
ISBN
9780395442357
Lexile
450
Themes
parents
food & culture

How My Parents Learned to Eat

Written by Ina R. Friedman and Illustrated by Allen Say

An American sailor courts a young Japanese woman and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

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Age Range
4 - 8
Genre
fiction
Copyright Year
1987-04-27
Page Count
32
Publisher
Clarion Books
Grade Level
Pre-K - 3rd
ISBN
9780395442357
Lexile
450
Themes
parents
food & culture
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