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A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata; Julia Kuo is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Place to Belong about?

A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing look at the aftermath of World War II by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata. World War II has ended, but while America has won the war, twelve-year-old Hanako feels lost. To her, the world, and her world, seems irrevocably broken. America, the only home shes ever known, imprisoned then rejected her and her familyand thousands of other innocent Americansbecause of their Japanese heritage, because Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japan, the country theyve been forced to move to, the country they hope will be the familys saving grace, where they were supposed to start new and better lives, is in shambles because America dropped bombs of their ownone on Hiroshima unlike any other in history. And Hanakos grandparents live in a small village just outside the ravaged city. The country is starving, the black markets run rampant, and countless orphans beg for food on the streets, but how can Hanako help them when there is not even enough food for her own brothe

Who reads A Place to Belong?

Author

Cynthia Kadohata; Julia Kuo

Publisher

Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781481446655

Category

children's

Subjects

Children'S, Juvenile

Rating

3.47 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14