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A beautifully told middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan's experience in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II. | A beautifully told middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan's experience in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II. | ||
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World History > Modern Age > WWII
A beautifully told middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan's experience in occupied rural Manchuria during World War II.
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, Asa, are left orphaned and destitute. In a desperate move to keep her sister alive, Natsu sells Asa 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, Mariko Nagai's Under the Broken Sky is powerful, poignant, and ultimately hopeful.
Other Similar Books
Other suggestions on the subject of World War II (Asian Front).
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (by: Coerr, Eleanor, Japan, WWII, Hiroshima, MG)
- Island War (by: Reilly Giff, Patricia, United States, WWII, MG)
- On the Horizon: World War II Reflections (by: Lowry, Lois, United States, Japan, WWII, MG, UMG)
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor: An Interactive History Adventure (by: Lassieur, Allison, United States, Japan, WWII, Pearl Harbor, MG)
- Raid of No Return (by: Hale, Nathan, United States, WWII, Doolittle Raid, Pearl Harbor, MG, UMG)
- History Smashers: Pearl Harbor (by: Messner, Kate, United States, Japan, WWII, Pearl Harbor, MG, UMG)
- The House of Sixty Fathers (by: DeJong, Meindert, China, WWII, MG)
- Under the Broken Sky (by: Nagai, Mariko, Japan, China, Manchuria, WWII, UMG)
- The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree (by: Abendanon, Lucille, Indonesia, WWII, UMG, YA)
- When My Name Was Keoko (by: Park, Linda Sue, Korea, WWII, UMG)
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- The Blossom and the Firefly (by: Smith, Sherri L., Japan, WWII, YA, A)
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- Barefoot Gen 1 (by: Nakazawa, Keiji, Japan, WWII, Hiroshima, YA, A)
- Anya's War (by: Alban, Andrea, China, WWII, Jewish Immigration, YA)
- Barefoot Gen 2 (by: Nakazawa, Keiji, Japan, WWII, Hiroshima, YA, A)
- In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (by: Stanton, Doug, Japan, United States, WWII, USS Indianapolis, YA, A)
- Barefoot Gen 3 (by: Nakazawa, Keiji, Japan, WWII, Hiroshima, YA, A)
- The Library of Legends (by: Chang, Janie, China, WWII, YA, A)
- The Last Rose of Shanghai: A Novel (by: Dai Randel, Weina, China, WWII, Jewish Immigration, A)