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Under the Broken Sky

Mariko Nagai
4.07/5 (613 ratings)
A 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, 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.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Macmillan
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B0DT2187N3

Under the Broken Sky

Mariko Nagai
4.07/5 (613 ratings)
A 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, 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.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Macmillan
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B0DT2187N3