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LEADER: 01443mam a2200277 a 4500
001 3157963
005 20221019234609.0
008 010626s2001 abc 000 f eng d
016 $a20019109660
020 $a0889952280 :$c$18.95
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm47239224
035 $9ATZ6444CU
035 $a3157963
040 $aCaBVAU$cNLC$dNNC$dOrLoB-B
055 3 $aPS8563 O8383$bK36 2001
082 0 $aC813/.54$221
100 1 $aGoto, Hiromi,$d1966-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94082258
245 14 $aThe Kappa child /$cHiromi Goto.
260 $aCalgary :$bRed Deer Press,$c2001.
263 $a0110
300 $a278 pages ;$c19 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In a family not at all reminiscent of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, four Japanese-Canadian sisters struggle to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as inhospitable as the sweltering prairie heat." "Their father, moved by an incredible dream of optimism, decides to migrate from the lush green fields of British Columbia to Alberta. There, he is determined to deny the hard-pan limitations of the prairie and to grow rice.".
520 8 $a"Despite a dearth of both water and love, the family discovers, through sorrow and fear, the green kiss of the Kappa Child, a mythical creature who blesses those who can imagine its magic."--BOOK JACKET.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR9199.3.G647$iK37 2001g