Orchards

by Holly Thompson

Book Overview

Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg--a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American--wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There Kana spends...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038573977X
• ISBN13: 9780385739771
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher