This Time Will Be Different

This Time Will Be DifferentA Kirkus Reviews Best Book * A 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection 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

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book * A 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection

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.

--Stacey Lee, award-winning author of Outrun the Moon and The Secret of a Heart Note

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harperteen
Published: 06/04/2019
ISBN: 9780062473448
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.50d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2019 pg. 146
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 106
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2019
Booklist 05/15/2019 pg. 54
Shelf Awareness 06/25/2019
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2019 pg. 137
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 504861 / This Time Will Be Different
Reading Level: 5.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13