{"id":45847,"date":"2019-10-01T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45847"},"modified":"2019-10-01T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:36:14","slug":"a-place-to-belong-by-cynthai-kadohata-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-place-to-belong-by-cynthai-kadohata-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45666\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Place-to-Belong-Cynthia-Kadohata-BookDragon-526x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Place-to-Belong-Cynthia-Kadohata-BookDragon-526x800.jpg 526w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Place-to-Belong-Cynthia-Kadohata-BookDragon.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom ages eight to 12, Hanako lived in prison: She was one of 120,000 majority Americans of Japanese descent imprisoned during WWII by Executive Order 9066. \u201c[N]ow that she was kind of free &#8230; [a]ll she could hope was that from now on, and maybe forever, she would never be in jail and nobody would ever point a gun at her again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robbed of their civil rights, Hanako and her family sail to Japan \u2013 where\u2019s she\u2019s never been \u2013 as expatriates to live with Hanako\u2019s father\u2019s elderly parents who work as tenant farmers just outside devastated Hiroshima. Her grandparents\u2019 open-armed welcome is a soothing balm against the destruction, starvation, and desperation that remain all-too-visible remnants of war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cynthiakadohata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cynthia Kadohata<\/a> (Newbery Medaled for <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kira-kira-by-cynthia-kadohata-author-interview-in-the-bloomsbury-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Kira-Kira<\/em><\/a>, 2004) spectacularly confronts the grey areas of right and wrong, of impossible choices, of feeding family by denying emaciated strangers, of survival over human kindness. Narrator Jennifer Ikeda, who shares Japanese ancestry with Kadohata and her characters, makes an ideal aural partner, delivering an extensive emotional range from children to seniors with effortless ease. Like her grandfather\u2019s <em>kintsukuroi <\/em>\u2013 broken pottery repaired with gold that both acknowledges and honors the history of the damage \u2013 Hanako perseveres through darkness with empathy and love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/A-Place-to-Belong-\/pid=9724314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, September 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW From ages eight to 12, Hanako lived in prison: She was one of 120,000 majority Americans of Japanese descent imprisoned during WWII by Executive Order 9066. \u201c[N]ow that she was kind of free &#8230; [a]ll she could hope was that from now on,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6,76,426,30,6535],"tags":[6608,6668,22,2804,10,11,135,51,25,720,187,39,8644,44,173,45],"class_list":["post-45847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-fiction","category-japanese","category-japanese-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-civil-rights","tag-cynthia-kadohata","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-japanese-american-imprisonment-during-wwii","tag-jennifer-ikeda","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-place-to-belong","tag-siblings","tag-travel","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-place-to-belong-by-cynthai-kadohata-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*STARRED REVIEW From ages eight to 12, Hanako lived in prison: She was one of 120,000 majority Americans of Japanese descent imprisoned during WWII by Executive Order 9066. \u201c[N]ow that she was kind of free &#8230; 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