All the Ways Home

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Sometimes, home isn t where you expect to find it.After losing his mom in a fatal car crash, Kaede Hirano now living with a grandfather who isstranger than family developed anger issues and spent his last year of middle school acting out.Best friendless and critically in danger repeating the seventh grade, Kaede is given a summer assignment write an essay about what home means to him, which will be even tougher now that he s on his way to Japan to reconnect with his estranged father and older half brother Still, if there s a chance Kaede can finally build a new family from an old one, he s willing to try But building new relationships isn t as easy as destroying his old ones, and one last desperate act will change the way Kaede sees everyone including himself.This is a book about what home means to us and that there are many different correct answers. Free Download All the Ways Home by Elsie Chapman For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is such a perfect warm hug of a book with a hero so raw and wounded, he doesn t even believe he deserves that kind of compassion and forgiveness anyBut he does, I loved him and felt for him from the very first page, and I CHEERED at the absolutely perfect ending.Kaede was born in Japan and spent his first three years there with a dad and a mom and an older half brother Then his parents divorced, his mom took him with her to Canada, and his dad who was always neglectful broke o This is such a perfect warm hug of a book with a hero so raw and wounded, he doesn t even believe he deserves that kind of compassion and forgiveness anyBut he does, I loved him and felt for him from the very first page, and I CHEERED at the absolutely perfect ending.Kaede was born in Japan and spent his first three years there with a dad and a mom and an older half brother Then his parents divorced, his mom took him with her to Canada, and his dad who was always neglectful broke off the relationship completely, no longer even replying to Kaede s emails Even Kaede s memories of his older brother faded away, and all his home became Canada, with his mom and his friends and his world thereuntil his mom was killed in a car accident and Kaede was left alone at 12 years old, looked after by a grandfather he barely knows and can t connect with, and full of rage and pain and loss that had no healthy outlets The mistakes he made during that ... Huge thank you to Raincoast for this ARC I felt emotional reading All the Ways Home Not only did the book make me nostalgic for my recent trip to Japan, but it made me feel for Kaede, a boy who just wants someone to love him after the death of his mother While I cannot relate to way Kaede s mother dies, I can in the sense that like him, there are days where I pine for my folks because there is so much I want to tell them, and no way to truly do so.This is the story of Kaede returning to Tokyo Huge thank you to Raincoast for this ARC I felt emotional reading All the Ways Home Not only did the book make me nostalgic for my recent trip to Japan, but it made me feel for Kaede, a boy who just wants someone to love him after the death of his mother While I cannot relate to way Kaede s mother dies, I can in the sense that like him, there are days where I pine for my folks because there is so much I want to tell them, and no way to truly do so.This is the story of Kaede returning to Tokyo after the death of his mother He s on the verge of failing 7th Grade, he s accidentally hurt his best friend back home in Vancouver, and he s trying to define what home means to him Arriving in Tokyo, he meets up with his brother Shoma, who takes him in for the three weeks he is there Hoping to see his famous father while in Tokyo, Kaede learns that not every person is as they seem The growth of Kaede and Shoma s relationship is one of my favourit...Disclaimer I received this book from the publisher This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest I am utterly smitten with All the Ways Home Talk about a book that hits all my sweet spots a complex family relationship, a main character struggling with his mista...There is something so good about reading a book, set in a time in place, that shows the author knows what they are writing about Kaede means maple in Japanese You don t need to know this You don t need to know that Nothings Carved in Stone is a real musical group You don t need to know the areas of Tokyo either Kaede is in Japan because his mother died Kaede is in Japan because his father abandoned him, and he is hoping to reconnect with him while he is here Kaede is in Japan because he There is something so good about reading a book, set in a time in place, that shows the author knows what they are writing about Kaede means maple in Japanese You don t need to know this You don t need to know that Nothings Carved in Stone is a real musical group You don t need to know the areas of Tokyo either Kaede is in Japan because his mother died Kaede is in Japan because his father abandoned him, and he is hoping to reconnect with him while he is here Kaede is in Japan because he is moorless, his sails flapping in the wind, no idea which way to go with his life.Kaede has questions he wants answers to He calls it is box of questions, but the main one is why his dad abandoned them And not only abandoned him, but abandoned his half brother who he is staying with while he waits for his father to make an appearance.The descriptions of Tokyo are wonderful, as are what is wr...E ARC from NetgalleyKaede Hirano had a fairly comfortable life in Canada with his mother, but when she dies in a car accident which he thinks is his fault, he must live with his cold and distant grandfather Luckily, he gets a message from his estranged father, who lives in Japan, that Kaede can visit him for several weeks This works out well, since Kaede has created a lot of trouble for himself since his mother s death, and his school will only allow him to go on to the next grade if his summe E ARC from NetgalleyKaede Hirano had a fairly comfortable life in Canada with his mother, but when she dies in a car accident which he thinks is his fault, he must live with his cold and distant grandfather Luckily, he gets a message from his estranged father, who lives in Japan, that Kaede can visit him for several weeks This works out well, since Kaede has created a lot of trouble for himself since his mother s death, and his school will only allow him to go on to the next grade if his summer project on the concept of home goes well When Kaede arrives in Japan, he is met by his half brother, Shoma, who is much older and writes articles on the music scene for a magazine Their father, a famous photographer, is off in a far flung region of Japan inaccessible to cell phones most of the time, so Kaede crashes with Shoma at his tiny apartment and does some sight...This book was received as an ARC from Macmillan Children s Publishing Group in exchange for an honest review Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own This book will really open minds for children across the world and will in my opinion introduce them to the important concept of self discovery The struggles throughout the story Kaede goes through after loosing his mom is so inspiring and really exemplifies the importance of self dependence and self discovery This b This book was received as an ARC from Macmillan Children s Publishing Group in exchange for an honest review Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own This book will really open minds for children across the world and will in my opinion introduce them to the important concept of self discovery The struggles ...This was beautiful.Okay I read a draft of this and I really loved it It s about brothers and grieving and being hurt and finding home when your old home has been ripped from you It is sweet and I liked it so much.This was so, so lovelyCompletely and utterly perfect Sign me up, I m now officially an Elsie Chapman fan.It would seem that the universe is sending me a message since I ve recently stumbled upon a pile of books about finding one s way home or making one s home and blooming where one is planted No matter one s age, perhaps this is something we always deal with especially when we ve moved from one place to another at one time or the other Seventh grader Kaede Hirano his name means Maple in Japanese has had a hard time dealing with his mother s death The two were close, and he has not been able t It would seem that the universe is sending me a message since I ve recently stumbled upon a pile of books about finding one s way home or making one s home and blooming where one is planted No matter one s age, perhaps this is something we always deal with especially when we ve moved from one place to another at one time or the other Seventh grader Kaede Hirano his name means Maple in Japanese has had a hard time dealing with his mother s death The two were close, and he has not been able to get past his anger, making his final year of middle school less than successful In order to have a chance to move on to eighth grade, Kaede has been assigned to write a paper and collect memorabilia for a project on the meaning of home After his father, a famous photographer, invites him to visit Japan, the place of his birth, for three weeks, he decides that it 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All the Ways Home
  • English
  • 20 September 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 224 pages
  • Elsie Chapman
  • All the Ways Home