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Walach, Stephen – English Journal, 2008
In May 2006, the summer-reading committee in the author's middle school debated the relevance of "So Far from the Bamboo Grove" by Yoko Kawashima Watkins and decided against using the book as a required summer-reading selection. Therefore, the author was interested in the controversy that erupted a few months later in Dover-Sherborn, a district…
Descriptors: World History, War, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries