First came the owl
By: Judith Benét Richardson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Self-confidence -- Fiction.; Depression, Mental -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Amerasians -- Fiction.
Description: Shy eleven-year-old Nita feels lost when her mother returns from a visit to their home country Thailand and plunges into depression, but then Nita miraculously begins to blossom and her shyness disappears.