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All the Ways Home

Elsie Chapman
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Pages
224
Year
2019
Language
English
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends

About

Sometimes, home isn't where you expect to find it.
After losing his mom in a fatal car crash, Kaede Hirano-now living with a grandfather who is more stranger than family-developed anger issues and spent his last year of middle school acting out.

Best-friendless and critically in danger 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 as easy as destroying his old ones, 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.

Related Subjects

  • Travel
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Death, Grief, Bereavement
  • Social Themes
  • Blended Families
  • Family

Extended Details

  • ATOSGrade Level 5.5
  • Interest LevelsMG
  • Lexile860L

Reviews

"In All the Ways Home, Elsie Chapman gracefully explores the complexities of family and loss. The specificity in which Chapman narrates Kaede's journey in Japan is particularly satisfying. An insightful, compassionate, and honest look at a young boy's search for identity and home after the death of his mother."
Veera Hiranandani, author of Newbery Honor novel The Night Diary
"All the Ways Home is a moving story of grief, cultural identity, and self-knowledge, and Kaede Hirano is an unforgettable protagonist. Elsie Chapman has done something wonderful here."
Mike Jung, author of Unidentified Suburban Object
"Honest and real--and filled with heart and hope"
All the Ways Home is a story that sticks with you long after the last page."

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