![]() ![]() Acting bolder than her mother about exploring the streets of Tokyo in the years after WWII, an 11-year-old Lois Lowry risks entering a stranger's house and learns that kindness can exist in "enemy" territory. ![]() Without exception, these intimate first-person narratives successfully evoke the awe, thrill or terror of experiencing a different culture. congressman, describes hosting a white South African girl assigned to her African-American family as part of a foreign-exchange program in 1977. Some selections take place on native soil: Elizabeth Partridge's "Looking for America," for example, traces her road trip to the segregated South, and Piper Dellums, the daughter of a U.S. Ten notable authors recreate memorable moments of their youthful travels in this thought-provoking collection of essays, letters and stories. ![]()
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