Avery Fischer Udagawa
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Avery Fischer Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She holds an MA in advanced Japanese studies from the University of Sheffield. She has studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama. She writes, translates and works in international education near Bangkok, where she lives with her bicultural family.
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By Sachiko Kashiwaba
Illustrations by Yukiko Saito
Translated from the Japanese by Avery Fischer Udagawa
Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers
A 2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honoree
A 2024 USBBY Outstanding International Book
A 2024 CCBC Choices Title
One of Kirkus Reviews’ 10 Essential Middle-Grade Books for Fall 2023 — Starred Review
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Middle-Grade Family Stories of 2023
A 2023 Cybils Awards Finalist for Speculative Middle Grade Fiction
From the author and translator of the Batchelder Award–winning novel Temple Alley Summer comes the moving story of three generations of women adapting to their new home, and its mythical inhabitants, in the tragic aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632063373
Publication date: Sep 19, 2023