2. Yoko Kawashima Watkins By Ethan Goncalves and Adam Lisee

3. Yoko’s Books Yoko’s Books So Far From the Bamboo Grove Eleven-year-old Yoko Kawashima has lived all her life in Korea. This book follows the experiences of young Yoko as World War II comes to an end and Korea is engulfed in turmoil. Koreans revolt to take back their homeland. Yoko and her family are forced to leave their home in Korea and to flee back to Japan in this story of heartbreak, cruelty, survival, and courage. My Brother, My Sister, and I Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-year-old Yoko her older brother and sister must endure a bed fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and murder. Tales From The Bamboo Grove Six Japanese folktales told around the dinner Table when Yoko was a child. backround The book, by Massachusetts author Yoko Kawashima Watkins, is the story of an 11-year-old Japanese girl whose family has to flee Korea in the aftermath of World War II. The journey is fraught with danger and persecution because of the Koreans' animosity toward the Japanese, who had occupied their country for more than three decades. The book is based on the real-life experiences of Watkins, whose father was a Japanese government official.

4. Yoko’s Education She attending Kyoto University where she was in an English-language based program. She graduated and worked at the US Air Force Base as a translator, where she met her future husband.

5. Yoko’s special interests Together the couple had four children. In 1976 Yoko began writing So Far From The Bamboo Grove. It was published in 1986, and has won many awards. In 1994 she published a second book My Brother, My sister, and I. In addition to writing Yoko gives lectures, visits schools, answers questions, and gives advice to students.

6. Yoko’s Awards the author won The Courage of Conscience Award and that is the only award she has won

7. Yoko’s personal Background The book, by Massachusetts author Yoko Kawashima Watkins, is the story of an 11-year-old Japanese girl whose family has to flee Korea in the aftermath of World War II. The journey is fraught with danger and persecution because of the Koreans' animosity toward the Japanese, who had occupied their country for more than three decades. The book is based on the real-life experiences of Watkins, whose father was a Japanese government official.

8. Where Yoko lives (please note does not count as stalking) 58 aunt molls ridge rd. Brewster, MA 02631

9. How Yoko’s books reflect her life In So far from the Bamboo Grove it describes the trouble she had during WWII

10. Credits Power point written work. Ethan Goncalves Power point transition/backgrounds Adam Lisee Resource information www.uvm.edu/~litblock/webquest/236Spring2003/King/ http://www.boston.com/ Answers.com Thank you because everyone says that at the end of a power point