Title
The Language Inside,Used
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A nuanced novel in verse that explores identit, friendship, love, loss, and home in a multicultural world.For Emma Karas, Japan is home. It is where she has lived almost her entire life. But when her mother falls ill, Emmas family moves in with her grandmother, back in Massachusetts. Emma is desperately homesick. She feels out of place in the U.S. and starts to get painful migraines. Then Emma begins volunteering at a longterm care center, helping a patient, Zena, write down her poems. There, Emma meets Samnang, a cute boy from her high school. As the weeks pass, Emma and Samnang grow close. But when Emma is given the choice, will she stay in Massachusetts, or return home to Japan?An ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults SelectionA Bankstreet Best Book of the YearA Notable Books for a Global Society SelectionA Notable Children's Books in the Language ArtsWith beautiful language and deep sensitivity, Holly Thompson explores the courage it takes to find your own voice. Patricia McCormick, author of National Book Award finalist Never Fall DownPulsing with pain and passion, with humor, heart, and hope. Sonya Sones, author of What My Mother Doesnt Know and To Be Perfectly Honest*Thompson captures perfectly the feeling of belonging elsewhere. A sensitive and compelling read that will inspire teens to contemplate how they can make a difference. School Library Journal, StarredThompson nimbly braids political tragedy, natural disaster, PTSD, connections among families, and a cautious, quiet romance into an elegant whole. This is an artistic picture of devastation, fragility, bonds and choices. Kirkus ReviewsThompson, working in a freeverse style that becomes a seamless piece of a world imbued with poetry, weaves [the plot strands] together skillfully. The result is a touching portrait of Emma working through loss and opportunity as Lowell becomes not just notJapan, but the site of new connections and a possible romance. Publishers WeeklyThe vivid imagery in the lyrical free verse lends immediacy to Emmas turbulent feelings. Readers will finish the book knowing that, like Zena, the Cambodian refugees, and the tsunami victims, Emma has the strength to a hundred times fall down / a hundred and one times get up. The Horn Book Magazine
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