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A Place to Belong
by Cynthia Kadohata
Illustrator: Julia Kuo
Ages: 9+
Published: 2019
Publisher: A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-4664-8
Keywords: Diversity, Hiroshima, Identity, Bombs
Hanako, 12, recounts the family's return to Hiroshima after their confinement in an incarceration camp during World War II. Occasional black-and-while illustrations.