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Orchards
by Holly Thompson
Illustrator: Grady McFerrin
Ages: 12+
Published: 2011
Publisher: Delacorte
ISBN: 978-0-385-73977-1
Keywords: Diversity
Sent to spend the summer with her mother's family in Japan, Kana reflects on her complicity in the events that led to a classmate's suicide at home. Told in free verse.