Yoko helps Timothy learn to play the bells of Sarna so that he can perform a solo in the school talent show.

For the traditional Japanese celebration of Girls' Day, Yoko receives a special gift from her grandparents in Japan: a doll named Miki that has b

Yoko pretends she cannot read because she thinks that if her mother finds out she can, no one will read her a bedtime story.

When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.

When Yoko moves from Japan to California, she decides to make and send origami swans to her grandmother for her birthday.

Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches

Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their name