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Kim/Kimi

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The book I read is called Kim/Kimi. I rated this book a 4 out of five. I rated it this because it was boring at some parts. I also did because there was not much action until the middle of the book. I liked this book because it was interesting and was something new to read about. It was a good book. It was kind of boring at times but over all I liked it. A good book that has a similar story is The Hiding Place. It's similar because they both talk about concentration camps in them. This book is not as good as the other one but they both are good books. Both of the books take place during World War II. In The Hiding Place, the Nazis lead by Adolph Hitler were discriminating against the Jewish people. In Kim/Kimi the Americans discriminated against the Japanese-American people. Another good book that is similar is Uncle Toms Cabin. It's similar because it's talking about people with a different race and how they were mistreated because of there race or culture. So remember do not judge people because of the way look!!!

This book is called Kim/Kimi. I personally thought it was a weird title but you have to know what it is about to relate to it. Kim/Kimi is the main character. Her father died when she was little and she is trying to find about what her father was like. She wanted to know if he had siblings so she could have an aunt or uncle. Her mom remarried and she never talked about her ex. Kim flies to California to look for information. Read this book to find out if she finds him!

I liked this book because it was well written and the author, Hadley Irwin, chose well words to use in his book also. I didn't really care for the end of the book because it was kind of dull and it should have told more of what happened later on. But over all it was an awesome book, and I would recommend this to anyone between the ages of 10-15.

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Outcast, weird, different, strange, odd, peculiar. These are the words Kim Andrews uses to describe her self.
In a small town in Iowa lived Kim Andrews (also known as Kimi Yoshugi.) Her father had died before she was born and her mom had remarried. She's a short, Japanese girl with short and straight black hair. Barely anyone at her high school looks like her and her only friend is Jav. She doesn't fit in, she doesn't belong. So she decides the only thing she can do is set out to find her Japanese family and heritage in Sacramento, California.
Kim reached California and met up with Ernie, the son of Barbara, the lady Kim would be staying with. Ernie and Barbara agreed that Kim could do the search by herself, if that's what she wanted.
She goes many places, but the most important is the Bureau of Vital Statistics. She finds out all the information about where her relatives live. I don't want to give too much away, but she does find two of her family members. You'll have to finish the book to see what happens.
This book supports the ideas of believing in yourself, being proud of your heritage and not worrying that you don't fit in. Everyone is special and different in the in their own way. Just because you have a different religion, race or heritage doesn't mean that you're strange or weird.
I liked this book because it was adventurous and funny. Whenever things got too serious, Kim would throw in a joke and it would relieve the stress. It also gives you a different perspective of what a person is feeling. Anyone ages ten to fifteen should buy this book.

I recommend its book to people because it is a really good book and is a fast read and is a book you cant put down.

This book made me realize life always have effects, pain, and consequences. This book for me was okay, pretty good. It's not that bad, but not perfect. Sometimes this book can be boring. Other times it's pretty exciting.

The central issue of "Kim/Kimi" is that Kim Andrews, half American and half Japanese, has no contact with the Japanese part of her family. Her Japanese father died when Kim was a toddler, after he had severed ties with his family in order to marry a white woman. Kim's mother, since remarried, rarely speaks of her first husband, especially the years he spent as a child, interred in a prison camp during World War II.

Kim (whose Japanese name is Kimi, hence the book's title) sets off on a journey in search of her father's family. The search doesn't result in a cliched happy reunion. Like real life, Kim's quest and its result are much more complex than that.

Throughout the book, Kim's addiction to serial romance novels is highlighted. The authors include "excerpts" from these cheesy novels to point out how different people's lives really are from these silly fantasies. As Kim notes, not everyone in real life has pretty eyes, shiny teeth, and problems that go no deeper than pimples.

I like this book for incorporating history in a non-textbook sense. True, the sections that mention the prison camps tend to get a little didactic, with many long speeches from survivors. Overall, though, this book was enjoyable both as an entertaining coming-of-age story and a painless history lesson.