I love you so Mochi by Kuhn, Sarah 

Paperback(Point, 2020)

BTSB #: 525582 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.5 MG Lexile: 810

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Japanese Americans - Fiction Fashion design - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Grandparents - Fiction Kyoto (Japan) - Fiction Japan - Fiction

Summary: Kimi Nakamura loves fashion, and designing clothes, jewelry, and accessories for her friends, but her mother, a professional graphic designer with a long list of clients, wants her to be a serious artist, and is furious when she discovers Kimi has dropped her fine arts class; so Kimi is relieved to be able to visit her normally estranged grandparents in Kyoto during spring break--but what begins as an escape becomes a way to learn about her mother and her Japanese heritage, and to figure out how to move forward with her own life.