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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
1. An Exciting Announcement
2. Lunch Break
3. What to Do?
4. Sticks
5. After-School Surprise
6. The Rules
7. Taiko
8. A Lot of Worries
9. Sophie’s Advice
10. Practice Makes Perfect
11. Dress Rehearsal
12. Talent-Show Time!
13. A Miracle
Author’s Note
Make Your Own Hachi-Maki
Sneak Peek: Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper
Also by Debbi Michiko Florence
Praise for Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen
About the Author and Illustrator
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
An imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Text copyright © 2018 by Debbi Michiko Florence
Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Elizabet Vuković
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2018
eBook edition, April 2018
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017944538
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eISBN 9780374304188