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      Pacific Crossing

      by Gary Soto
      Published
      Oct 1992
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      144
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      Sometimes to find out who you are...you have to travel half a world away.

      Lincoln Mendoza doesn't know jack about Japan. They make good cars, right? And somewhere there are old samurai men sitting cross-legged before bowls of incense, their gis stained with the blood of their enemies.

      But Japan, Lincoln discovers, isn't like that at all. During a six-week visit, he and his best friend, Tony Contreras, study the martial art of kempo, and have strange, hilarious, and even sometimes perilous adventures with their new Japanese brother, Mitsuo. With each new event that befalls him, Lincoln begins to learn that people everywhere, whether friend or kempo opponent, share worries and passions much like his own—for baseball, family traditions, and new friends.

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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      Oct 1992 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780152591885 ISBN10 0152591885
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      Mar 2003 Harcourt ISBN13 9780152046965 ISBN10 0152046968
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      First Edition Oct 1992 Harcourt ISBN13 9780152591878 ISBN10 0152591877
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      Oct 1992 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780785704133 ISBN10 0785704132
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