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Half A World Away

by Cynthia Kadohata

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

Half A World Away by Cynthia Kadohata appears in NPR’s 2014 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, young adult, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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