No-No Boy -- John Okada, Paperback Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Fantasy but the deep-rooted love they

but the deep-rooted love they share no matter the distance

who is disappointed that he does not have a big

From head rubs and tail twitches to eye blinks and ear flicks

When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song

Memories from her childhood flood back

No-No Boy -- John Okada, Paperback Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Fantasy but the deep-rooted love they"No No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid 1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized