Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu

About The Author

Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu’s debut novel Somewhere Among, based on life in a bicultural multi-generational home in Tokyo, won the Freeman Award, SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, Writers’ League of Texas Book Award, and was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. She still lives in Tokyo, Japan, after raising two children and experiencing the 2011 earthquake and aftershocks. After inheriting the garden work from Great-grandfather and Grandfather, she has spent a lot more time gardening. It keeps her grounded.

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Books by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu

Beyond Me

By Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu

“An essential read…with a message of hope and community.” —Booklist (starred review)

In the spirit of A Place to Belong, this “moving” (Kirkus Reviews) novel-in-verse examines the aftershocks of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011 throug...

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Somewhere Among

By Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu

Illustrated by Sonia Chaghatzbanian

In this beautiful and haunting debut novel in verse, called “a tender piece on connectedness” in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, a Japanese-American girl struggles with the loneliness of being caught between two worlds when the tragedy of 9/11 strikes an ocean away.

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LIST PRICE ₹513.00

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