Florence, Debbi Michiko. Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen. Illus. by Elizabet Vuković. 2017. 128p. Farrar Strauss Giroux, $15.99 (9780374304102). Gr. 1-4.
Eight-year-old Jasmine decides to participate in her family’s mochi-tsuki by pounding mochi with the men–even though she is a girl AND considered too young.
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