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Japanese fifth-grader Ema and her pregnant mother must move to the other side of Toyko to stay for several months with Obaasan and Jiichan, Papa&rsquo;s parents: Mom is weak with debilitating morning sickness, and Papa works long hours. No one is happy with the situation&mdash;Ema will miss her usual summer visit to Mom&rsquo;s parents in California; stern Obaasan is overly controlling and critical; and Ema must deal with new schoolmates&mdash;and a bully. The one bright spot for Ema is Jiichan, who enjoys spending time with his granddaughter. Ema&rsquo;s narration in this free-verse novel is quiet and thoughtful. The year is 2001, and the news is filled with heartbreak: the tragedy of the Ehime Maru, the Japanese ship sunk by an American submarine; the commemoration in August of the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (where Jiichan lost his whole family); and then September 11th, especially traumatic for Ema&rsquo;s American mother. The word heart appears throughout the poems, leading gradually to the climax, as Jiichan&rsquo;s heart lands him in the hospital and a stranger gives Ema an origami doll with a heart on it and a message of peace&mdash;a message that awakens in Obaasan a change of heart. When the baby arrives, Ema comes up with the perfect name for her new sister&mdash;leaving her family and readers feeling full of hope for the future. Though Ema sometimes sounds older than eleven, that&rsquo;s a small caveat in an otherwise well-crafted, deeply absorbing novel.

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