Orchards by Holly Thompson
Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult LiteratureAn ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg--a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American--wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There Kana spends hours under the hot sun tending to her family's mikan orange groves.
Kana's mixed heritage makes it hard to fit in at first, especially under the critical eye of her traditional grandmother, who has never accepted Kana's father. But as the summer unfolds, Kana gets to know her relatives, Japan, and village culture, and she begins to process the pain and guilt she feels about the tragedy back home. Then news about a friend sends her world spinning out of orbit all over again. From the Hardcover edition.
Holly Thompson was born in New England and has lived in Japan for many years. Holly teaches creative writing and divides her time between Japan and Massachusetts. She is the author of the children's verse novels Falling Into the Dragon's Mouth, The Language Within, and Orchards. Her website is hatbooks.com, and she may be found on Twitter as @hatbooks.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385739788 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385739788 |
| Title | Orchards |
| Author | Holly Thompson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2012-02-14 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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