Mom Got a Promotion!

Eighth grade is basically over. Summer plans are made, lifelong friends are waiting, and high school is right around the corner. Then your mother cooks a suspiciously good burger and announces that her new promotion is in Japan. Twelve days later, you’re moving to Nagahama: a small port town in Ehime where the Hijikawa River meets the sea. There’s no American school nearby, so you’ll enter the final year of Japanese junior high with limited Japanese, no local friends, and high-school entrance exams waiting next spring. Learn the language, survive school, build a new life, and somehow get into high school before one corporate promotion completely destroys your adolescence. A grounded, sarcastic coming-of-age story about family, culture shock, friendship, and becoming the most academically endangered foreign kid in rural Japan. Auto-Cards enabled.