Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa bids her father good-bye before her birthday celebration. She doesn’t know the government has ordered all Japanese-born men out of the province. Ten days later, her family joins hundreds of Japanese-Canadians on a train to the interior of British Columbia. Even though her aunt Sadie jokes about it, they have truly reached the «Land of No». There are no paved roads, no streetlights and not streetcars. The house in which they are to live is dirty and drafty. At school Michiko learns the truth of her situation. She must face local prejudice, the worst winter in forty years and her first Christmas without her father.
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Jennifer Maruno. When the Cherry Blossoms Fell
When the Cherry Blossoms Fell
One. March 1942
Two. Blackout
Three. Only Ten Days
Four. The Locomotive
Five. Be Grateful
Six. Houses in the Orchard
Seven. Family Photographs
Eight. School in Town
Nine. A Boat Called Apple
Ten. Carpenter Creek
Eleven. How to Spot a Jap
Twelve. The Root Cellar
Thirteen. Mail Order Catalogues
Fourteen. Bears
Fifteen. Camp School
Sixteen. Winter Wolves
Seventeen. The Quilt
Eighteen. House for Sale
Japanese vocabulary. In order of appearance in the story
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Dedicated to
Eiko Kitagawa Maruno.
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Her mother wore her dark hair in a perfectly pinned bun, never a hair out of place. Her aunt’s hair, cut in bangs, was level with her ears. Her hair always swung and flew about her face when she talked. And Sadie talked a lot. She flounced into a room, she laughed loudly and always said what she was thinking.
Michiko’s mother said very little. She entered a room quietly and spoke softly. She never argued or offered an opinion. She usually made herself invisible.
