The friendship doll
By: Kirby Larson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780385737456; 9780375899515; 9780385906678
Subjects: Dolls; Ambassadors; Fiction; Conduct of life; History
Description: Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings.; title: Early autumn, 1927 : Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan; title: Arrival in America; title: New York City, January 1928 : Bunny Harnden; title: Middles.; title: Downers Grove, Illinois, 1933 : Lois Brown; title: Miracle, Kentucky, 1937 : Willie Mae Marcum; title: From Oklahoma to California, August 1939-1941 : Lucy Turner; title: Endings.; title: Seattle, Washington, present time : Mason Medcalf; title: Author's note