Jean Davies Okimoto, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $13.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-87113-061-7
On the day the fast food place where Jason works is robbed, he vows that if he lives, he won't be wimpy anymore. When he comes out of the robbery alive but jobless, it's not easy to live up to that vow. His father wants him to get another job, but...
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Author Little Brown and Company $15.45 (181p) ISBN 978-0-316-63810-4
When previously independent adult children return home to live with their parents, as an estimated 22 million do currently, there are inevitable problems of co-existence. Techniques and strategies to avoid predictable pitfalls in the former parent-ch
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Author Joy Street Books $15.95 (135p) ISBN 978-0-316-63812-8
Every detail of this story falls ever so tidily into place as Janie searches for pointers on preadolescent popularity. After her best friend suddenly moves away, Janie is loath to enter junior high; in a rather pat parallel, her live-in, widowed...
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Author Scholastic $14.95 (161p) ISBN 978-0-590-47809-0
Rodney Suyama, 17, has two goals: to be the first Asian rap star and to win the affection of his classmate Ivy Ramos. But she already has a boyfriend-the school's football hero. And Rodney's sister, Suzanne, a college sophomore, discourages his...
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Author, Doug Keith, Illustrator Sasquatch Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-912365-73-2
This pooch is in disgrace. Poor Grace's dreams of becoming a seeing-eye dog have been rudely squelched: she's too small. Expelled from training school, she saves a boy who darts out into the path of an oncoming fire engine and is promptly collared...
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Author, Elaine M. Aoki, Joint Author, Meilo So, Illustrator , illus. by Meilo So. Clarion $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-16453-0
This tender, ebullient picture book tracks a quartet of parents in North America and a quartet of baby girls in China as everyone prepares for the "special day" they meet. Okimoto (the daughter of an adoptee) and Aoki (the mother of an...
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Jean Davies Okimoto, Author, Howie Schneider, Illustrator Joy Street Books $13.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-63811-1
Ever since his dog Raymond died, grumpy Horace P. Blumpoe has become even grumpier. But even a grouch has a soft spot, and lonely Horace prepares for his annual visit to his sister Edith. When car problems force him to check in at the Anderson House
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