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A place to belong

Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.

Main Author: Kadohata, Cynthia (Author)
Other Authors: Kuo, Julia (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atheneum, [2019]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants > Juvenile fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
Identity > Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Juvenile fiction.
Japan > History > 1945-1989 > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
Item Description: "A Caitlyn Dlouhy book."
Physical Description: 405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9781481446648
1481446649
9781481446655
1481446657
Author Notes: Cynthia Kadohata was born on July 2, 1956. She is a Japanese American author of children's books. Kadohata won the Newbery Medal in 2005 for her title, Kira-Kira. She also won a PEN award in 2006 for Weedflower and in 2013 she won the U.S. National Book Award for The Thing About Luck.

Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a high school drop out. She attained a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and went on to attend graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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