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Under the Broken Sky

By Mariko Nagai
Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Macmillan Imprint Henry Holt and Company, Inc. ISBN

9781250159212

Awards and Honors NCTE’s 2020 Notable Poetry List in the Notable Verse Novels Category

Under the Broken Sky

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Violence: War/Harsh Realities of War

Twelve-year-old Natsu and her family live a quiet farm life in Manchuria, near the border of the Soviet Union. But the life they’ve known begins to unravel when her father is recruited to the Japanese army, and Natsu and her little sister, Cricket, are left orphaned and destitute. In a desperate move to keep her sister alive, Natsu sells Cricket to a Russian family following the 1945 Soviet occupation. The journey to redemption for Natsu's broken family is rife with struggles, but Natsu is tenacious and will stop at nothing to get her little sister back.



Literary and historically insightful, this is one of the great untold stories of WWII. Much like the Newbery Honor book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, Under the Broken Sky is powerful, poignant, and ultimately hopeful.



Afterword. Black-and-white photograph.
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