Miss Happiness and Miss Flower

Quick little read.
A little girl had to leave her birth country and move to live with her cousins, but she feels very out of place, everything is strange and different. She gets a Japanese doll (or two of them, actually, but more about that in the book) and wants to make them feel at home, so she gets them a Japanese house - with the help of her cousins, an old book seller, and a school friend and her mother. What I find interesting is that the girl herself was not given the same courtesy she gave to the dolls. No-one ever tried to make her feel more at home, the family just expected her to adjust. Makes me kind of sad. They were nice and all, but none of the people expressed any compassion to her having missed her mother and having to live in someone else's home. And her youngest cousin was a real beast.