All the Ways Home
Published on 1. June 2019
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-250-16679-1 (ISBN)
Description
After losing his mom, Kaede Hirano developed anger issues and spent his last year of middle school acting out.
Best-friendless and critically in danger of repeating the seventh grade, Kaede is given a summer assignment: Write an essay about what home means to him, which will be even tougher now that he's on his way to Japan to reconnect with his estranged father and older half-brother. Still, if there's a chance Kaede can finally build a new family from an old one, he's willing to try. But building new relationships isn't easy, and one last desperate act will change the way Kaede sees everyone - including himself.
This is a book about what home means to us - and that there are many different correct answers. Sometimes, home isn't even where you expected to find it.
Best-friendless and critically in danger of repeating the seventh grade, Kaede is given a summer assignment: Write an essay about what home means to him, which will be even tougher now that he's on his way to Japan to reconnect with his estranged father and older half-brother. Still, if there's a chance Kaede can finally build a new family from an old one, he's willing to try. But building new relationships isn't easy, and one last desperate act will change the way Kaede sees everyone - including himself.
This is a book about what home means to us - and that there are many different correct answers. Sometimes, home isn't even where you expected to find it.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 years
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
319 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-250-16679-1 (9781250166791)
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Person
Elsie Chapman grew up in Prince George, Canada, and has a degree in English literature from the University of British Columbia. She is the author of young adult novels Dualed, Divided, and Along the Indigo, and co-editor of anthologies A Thousand Beginnings and Endings and Hungry Hearts. She currently lives in Tokyo, Japan, with her family. All the Ways Home is her first middle-grade novel.