Up From The Sea
  • Published: 15 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9780553534771
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $19.99

Up From The Sea

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12 Jan 2016
Paperback
15 May 2017
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Can hope be found when everything is lost? Publishing in time for the 5th anniversary, UP FROM THE SEA is a powerful novel written in free verse about a teen who survives the March 2011 tsunami that sent Japan into chaos.

A powerful novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village.
 
“Successfully captures the raw emotions of loss, grief, and what it means to move forward.” —BuzzFeed
 
On the day the tsunami strikes, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about. But a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9/11 gives him new hope and the chance to look for his estranged American father. Visiting Ground Zero on its tenth anniversary, Kai learns that the only way to make something good come out of disaster is to return and rebuild.
 
Heartrending yet hopeful, Up from the Sea is a story about loss, survival, and starting anew. 
 
Fans of Jewell Parker Rhodes’s Ninth Ward and Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust will embrace this moving story. An author’s note includes numerous sources detailing actual events portrayed in the story.

A BOOKRIOT 100 MUST-READ YA BOOKS WRITTEN IN VERSE
A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK FOR TEENS, 2016

“Up From the Sea touched me deeply with its beautiful message of hope and the resilience of humanity. Bravo.” —Ellen Oh, author of the Prophecy series
 
“It is a moving story of the rebirth of hope in a teen who has lost almost everything. . . . Kai will resonate with teens on a simple human level, just as 3/11 resonates with 9/11.” —VOYA
  • Published: 15 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9780553534771
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $19.99
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Praise for Up From The Sea

"[Kai's] rural Japanese community and how they endure catastrophe and overwhelming losses--what they do and don't do for one another, comforts they miss, kindnesses they value--spring to life. It's the haunting details of those around Kai that readers will remember. - Kirkus

"The fast-paced writing progresses the plot perfectly to fit with the subject...Fans of Ellen Hopkins's work will enjoy the immediacy of this novel-in-verse." - School and Library Journal

"Readers who appreciate the power of sports, friendship, and; family to heal and to restore will engage with this well-paced emotional journey." - Booklist

"It is a moving story of the rebirth of hope in a teen who has lost almost everything...Kai will resonate with teens on a simple human level, just as 3/11 resonates with 9/11." - VOYA

"UP FROM THE SEA touched me deeply with its beautiful message of hope and the resilience of humanity. Bravo." - Ellen Oh, author of THE PROPHECY SERIES

"While Leza Lowitz's UP FROM THE SEA is heartbreaking, it is also touching and captivating. Fast-paced and full of emotion, I was unable to put this book down." - Emma, 10th grade

"[Kai's] rural Japanese community and how they endure catastrophe and overwhelming losses--what they do and don't do for one another, comforts they miss, kindnesses they value--spring to life. It's the haunting details of those around Kai that readers will remember. - Kirkus

"The fast-paced writing progresses the plot perfectly to fit with the subject...Fans of Ellen Hopkins's work will enjoy the immediacy of this novel-in-verse." - School and Library Journal

"Readers who appreciate the power of sports, friendship, and; family to heal and to restore will engage with this well-paced emotional journey." - Booklist

"It is a moving story of the rebirth of hope in a teen who has lost almost everything...Kai will resonate with teens on a simple human level, just as 3/11 resonates with 9/11." - VOYA

"UP FROM THE SEA touched me deeply with its beautiful message of hope and the resilience of humanity. Bravo." - Ellen Oh, author of THE PROPHECY SERIES

"While Leza Lowitz's UP FROM THE SEA is heartbreaking, it is also touching and captivating. Fast-paced and full of emotion, I was unable to put this book down." - Emma, 10th grade

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