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Up From The Sea (Hb)

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Running through my ruined town,
pack flapping
winglike
against my back.

Plowing through blocks
strewn with heaps of
refrigeratorsblackboardsbicyclestaxis
bustedpianosshelvedesksstairs
allmixedtogether
in a marshland
grave.

In March 2011, a massive tsunami devastates Japan. Kai, a biracial teen from a coastal village, loses nearly everyone and everything in the storm.

When he?s offered a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9/11, Kai decides to look for his estranged father. Visiting Ground Zero on its tenth anniversary, Kai realizes the only way to make something good come out of the disaster back home is to return there and help rebuild his town.

Heartrending yet hopeful, Leza Lowitz?s novel-in-verse is a story about loss, survival, and starting anew.*This book may have remainder mark*

Product Overview
ISBN 9780553534740
Categories Fiction, MIXnMATCH, Teenage / Young Adult
Author(s) Leza Lowitz
Publisher Crown
Pages 272
Format Hardback
Dimensions 21.3cm x 2.5cm x 14.6cm
Weight 0.59 kg