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Gail Sakurai

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As a child, Gail Sakurai was an enthusiastic reader. The more she read, the more she thought she'd like to become an author herself. She began writing stories when she was about eight years old.

But as she grew older, Sakurai moved away from writing. In college she studied foreign languages, and after graduation, she and her husband started a family. Sakurai read book after book to her two children when they were young. This revived her own dream of writing books, especially children's books. When her youngest child started going to school, Sakurai started making that dream come true. In addition to retelling folktales, she has written books about the United States in the colonial and revolutionary periods, the Library of Congress, and Asian...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 19 ratings · 5 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Japanese American Internment Camps (Cornerstones of Freedom, Second Series) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Peach Boy: A Japanese Legend 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	The Jamestown Colony 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Louisiana Purchase 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Stephen Hawking - Psb 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Paul Revere 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Juan Ponce de Len 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Juan Ponce de Leon 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Peach Boy by Gail Sakurai, Makiko Nagano (Illustrator), Gail Sajurai 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mae Jemison: Space Scientist 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	My rating: