The Horn Book Guide

INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Chapman, Elsie

All the Ways Home

216 pp. | Feiwel | May, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-16679-1 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-250-16678-4

(2) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Japanese Canadian Kaede's mother died recently in a car accident. Chapman effectively alternates Kaede's first-person narrative with letters he writes in a journal he begins keeping for school; it's his constant companion during a summer spent in Tokyo with his father and half-brother--neither of whom he's seen since his parents' divorce nine years ago. Rich with the sensory details of life in Tokyo and the complexities of a boy finding his way.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2019