A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata

A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the YearA Booklist Editors' ChoiceA Horn Book Fanfare Best of 2019A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019A Parents' Choice Gold Award WinnerSo California Independent Booksellers Middle Grade Book of the YearALA Notable BookNational Book Award LonglistFive Starred ReviewsWorld 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 she's ever known, imprisoned then rejected her and her family--and thousands of other innocent Americans--because of their Japanese heritage, because Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Japan, the country they've been forced to move to, the country they hope will be the family's saving grace, where they were supposed to start new and better lives, is in shambles because America dropped bombs of their own--one on Hiroshima unlike any other in history. And Hanako's grandparents live in a small village