{"id":2933,"date":"2024-09-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2024-09-04T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:08:41","slug":"tessa-miyata-is-no-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"Tessa Miyata Is No Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Julie Abe<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TessaMiyataIsNoHero.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TessaMiyataIsNoHero.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2934\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Year of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying with their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her hopes are quickly dashed when she realizes her sisters are old enough to go into Tokyo, while she can\u2019t even go to the corner store by herself. Plus, her grandparents want her to stay home with the neighbor kid, thirteen-year-old Jin Uehara, who\u2019s made it clear he\u2019s too cool to spend time with a weirdo like her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Tessa is finally allowed to go to Tokyo, it\u2019s only to join her grandpa\u2019s retiree aerobic class with none other than Jin. Their disastrous forced hangout comes crashing to a halt when Tessa and Jin break the Miyata family\u2019s precious heirloom\u2014accidentally releasing the malicious samurai god Taira Masakado and discovering a hidden part of the city where gods and mythological creatures walk among humans\u2014including their new companion, a mythical nine-tailed fox who may be more trouble than he is help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tessa and Jin must now work together to stop Taira Masakado before he traps them\u2014and the rest of Tokyo\u2014under his command, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goshen Public Library call number:  <\/strong> JF ABE (BOOK-J)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julie Abe Year of Publication:\u00a02023 A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp; Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying with their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}