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Language: Mild Language,Violence: Sexual Assault/Rape Reference/Discussion
Half a World Away
By Cynthia Kadohata
Edition
Triple Crown National Book Award 2016-2017
By Cynthia Kadohata
Hardcover edition
Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Atheneum ISBN9781442412750
Awards and Honors Booklist Editors’ Choice 2014, Fiction, Middle Readers; Booklist Top 10 Multicultural Fiction for Youth, 2015; Los Angeles Public Library Best Books of 2014, Children’sTriple Crown National Book Award 2016-2017
Half a World Away
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SKU
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Jaden, a troubled Romanian adoptee, knows he’ll hate the Kazakh baby his parents plan to adopt. But the family’s trip to Kazakhstan—and the adoption—is full of surprises.
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