Orchards
By: Holly Thompson ; illustrations by Grady McFerrin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Delacorte Press; Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780385739771; 9780375898341; 9780385908061
Subjects: Racially mixed people; Suicide; Novels in verse; Fiction
Description: Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home.