All the Ways Home

Description

After losing his mom, Kaede Hirano developed anger issues and spent his last year of middle school acting out.

Best-friendless and critically in danger of repeating the seventh grade, Kaede is given a summer assignment: Write an essay about what home means to him, which will be even tougher now that he’s on his way to Japan to reconnect with his estranged father and older half-brother. Still, if there’s a chance Kaede can finally build a new family from an old one, he’s willing to try. But building new relationships isnt easy, and one last desperate act will change the way Kaede sees everyoneincluding himself.

This is a book about what home means to usand that there are many different correct answers. Sometimes, home isnt even where you expected to find it.

Author Information

Elsie Chapman grew up in Prince George, Canada, and has a degree in English literature from the University of British Columbia. She is the author of young adult novels Dualed, Divided, and Along the Indigo, and co-editor of anthologies A Thousand Beginnings and Endings and Hungry Hearts. She currently lives in Tokyo, Japan, with her family. All the Ways Home is her first middle-grade novel.