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Up From the Sea
Book · 2016
Up From the Sea
13+Best for tweens & teens★ 3.9
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Kai, a half-Japanese half-American teenager, loses his town, his mother and his friends in the 2011 tsunami. He is invited to New York to meet young people who lost parents on September 11, and soccer is the thread that pulls him back toward other people.
Why we picked it
A short novel in verse that a reluctant reader can finish in an evening, about a boy who plays his way out of grief. It handles loss without being bleak.
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