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This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura is a contemporary YA novel about CJ Katsuyama, a Japanese American teen content working in her family’s flower shop—until her mother decides to sell it to the family who once profited from her grandparents’ forced internment during WWII. As CJ fights to save the shop, she navigates family tensions, community history, and her own coming-of-age, confronting issues of justice, identity, and the power of standing up for what’s right.
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For fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own history.
The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning It’s Not Like It’s a Secret is back with another smartly drawn coming-of-age novel that weaves riveting family drama, surprising humor, and delightful romance into a story that will draw you in from the very first page.
Katsuyamas never quit—but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn’t even know where to start. She’s never lived up to her mom’s type A ambition, and she’s perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family’s flower shop.
She doesn’t buy into Hannah’s romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of.
Then her mom decides to sell the shop—to the family who swindled CJ’s grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ’s family, friends, and their entire Northern California community; and for the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for.
| Weight | 34 oz |
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| Dimensions | 5.5 × 1.25 × 8.25 in |
| Book | Book/Books |
