Jack Schroder
An American Artist
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(Catalpa Press May 8, 2005)
Soshiro is a young Japanese boy who arrives at school bewildered and not too great at English. The coach assigns Jim to help him with his English. Sosh does not fit in well. He does not play tennis; he has no interest in sports. Not until the boys discover that he really is an artist and is living with his uncle who also paints, do thing begin to look up. The boys help Sosh get a job at an artists' supply store and there they solve the theft of art products. But only when Sosh finally is accepted to a juried show does he begin to feel like an American, an American Artist.