Book Descriptions
for The Happiest Ending by Yoshiko Uchida
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Twelve-year-old Rinko attempts to intervene in an arranged marriage when a family friend comes to California from Japan. This indomitable girl is the protagonist in two earlier novels on the Japanese American experience in the U. S., A JAR OF DREAMS (1981) and THE BEST BAD THING (1983). (Ages 9-13)
CCBC Choices 1985 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1985. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
When twelve-year-old Rinko learns that a neighbor's daughter is coming from Japan to marry a stranger twice her age, she sets out to change this arrangement and gains new insights into love and adult problems.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
