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All the Ways Home
by Elsie Chapman
Ages: 12+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-250-16679-1
Keywords: Absent fathers, Loss, Bi-national identity, Healing, Family
A Canadian boy's mother is killed in an accident. Now he must spend the summer in Japan with his estranged father and write an essay on the meaning of home.