A powerful novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village. On that fateful day, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about. When he’s offered a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9/11, Kai realizes he also has a 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 the disaster back home is to return there and help rebuild his town. Heartrending yet hopeful, Up from the Sea is a story about loss, survival, and starting anew. Fans of Jame Richards’s Three Rivers Rising and teens who read Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust as middle graders will embrace this moving story. An author’s note includes numerous sources detailing actual events portrayed in the story.

Up From the Sea

Lowitz, Leza

Children's Books

Crown Books for Young Readers

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

Ember

Beautiful Japan: A Souvenir

Travel

Yasuda, Narumi

Asia

Tuttle+publishing

**Winner of the 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature****2015 Sakura Medal Nominee****Shortlisted for the 2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award****Nominated for the Cybils Young Adult Bloggers Literary Award**Seventeen-year-old Jet Black is a ninja. There's only one problem—she doesn't know it.Jet has never lived a so-called normal life. Raised by her single Japanese mother on a Navajo reservation in the Southwest, Jet's life was a constant litany of mysterious physical and mental training. For as long as Jet can remember, every Saturday night she and her mother played "the game" on the local mountain. But this time, Jet is fighting for her life. And at the end of the night, her mother dies and Jet finds herself an orphan—and in mortal danger.Fulfilling her mother's dying wish, Jet flies to Japan to live with her grandfather where she discovers she is the only one who can protect a family treasure hidden in her ancestral land. She's terrified, but if Jet won't fight to protect her world, who will? Stalked by bounty hunters and desperately attracted with the man who's been sent to kill her, Jet must be strong enough to protect the treasure, preserve an ancient culture and save a sacred mountain from destruction. In Jet Black and the Ninja Wind, multiple award-winning author, poet and translator team Leza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani make their first foray into young adult fiction with a compulsively readable tale whose teenage heroine must discover if she can put the blade above the heart—or die trying.

Jet Black and the Ninja Wind: British Edition

Oketani, Shogo

Action & Adventure

**Winner of the 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature** **2015 Sakura Medal Nominee** **Shortlisted for the 2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award** **Nominated for the Cybils Young Adult Bloggers Literary Award** Seventeen-year-old Jet Black is a ninja. There's only one problem—she doesn't know it. Jet has never lived a so-called normal life. Raised by her single Japanese mother on a Navajo reservation in the Southwest, Jet's life was a constant litany of mysterious physical and mental training. For as long as Jet can remember, every Saturday night she and her mother played "the game" on the local mountain. But this time, Jet is fighting for her life. And at the end of the night, her mother dies and Jet finds herself an orphan—and in mortal danger. Fulfilling her mother's dying wish, Jet flies to Japan to live with her grandfather, where she discovers she is the only one who can protect a family treasure hidden in her ancestral land. She's terrified, but if Jet won't fight to protect her world, who will? Stalked by bounty hunters and desperately attracted with the man who's been sent to kill her, Jet must be strong enough to protect the treasure, preserve an ancient culture and save a sacred mountain from destruction. In Jet Black and the Ninja Wind, multiple award-winning author, poet and translator team Leza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani make their first foray into young adult fiction with a compulsively readable tale whose teenage heroine must discover if she can put the blade above the heart—or die trying.

Jet Black and the Ninja Wind

**Winner of the 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature** **2015 Sakura Medal Nominee** **Shortlisted for the 2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award** **Nominated for the Cybils Young Adult Bloggers Literary Award** Seventeen-year-old Jet Black is a ninja. There's only one problem—she doesn't know it. Jet has never lived a so-called normal life. Raised by her single Japanese mother on a Navajo reservation in the Southwest, Jet's life was a constant litany of mysterious physical and mental training. For as long as Jet can remember, every Saturday night she and her mother played "the game" on the local mountain. But this time, Jet is fighting for her life. And at the end of the night, her mother dies and Jet finds herself an orphan—and in mortal danger. Fulfilling her mother's dying wish, Jet flies to Japan to live with her grandfather, where she discovers she is the only one who can protect a family treasure hidden in her ancestral land. She's terrified, but if Jet won't fight to protect her world, who will? Stalked by bounty hunters and desperately attracted with the man who's been sent to kill her, Jet must be strong enough to protect the treasure, preserve an ancient culture and save a sacred mountain from destruction. In Jet Black and the Ninja Wind, multiple award-winning author, poet and translator team Leza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani make their first foray into young adult fiction with a compulsively readable tale whose teenage heroine must discover if she can put the blade above the heart—or die trying.

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Bay area poet Leza Lowitz, famed for her recent YOGA POEMS: LINES TO UNFOLD BY and her groundbreaking anthologies of Japanese women's poetry A LONG RAINY SEASON and OTHER SIDE RIVER, now turns to fiction, in these twelve stories and a novella set in the ordinary streets of modern Tokyo. "If you've lived in Japan, this collection will awaken memories. If you haven't, you'll find yourself wanting to. Leza Lowitz' s Japan is never cliched. Her Westerners are always trying to go deeper"--Rhainnon Paine. "In these many-faceted stories, Leza Lowitz gives us a view of the world as wryly original as it is sensual and poetic. The collection is an extended meditation on the relationship between place and the interior life"--Dianne Highbridge. "Japan and its people come alive with authentic detail and a subtle, still-fresh sense of discovery"--Alison Anderson.

Green Tea To Go: Stories from Tokyo

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

SARU Press

Poetry. "These poems are about the mind's amazing ability to perceive itself at exactly the moment when the self is least stable: the moment of change. ONE HUNDRED ASPECTS OF THE MOON is a rich poetry of awareness in motion"--Jack Foley, host of KPFA Radio's "Cover to Cover." Leza Lowitz is the recipient of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Aware, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Award for the translation of Japanese Literature, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and literary fellowships from the NEA, NEH and the California Arts Council. She currently resides in Tokyo, where she directs the Sun and Moon Yoga Studio.

100 Aspects of the Moon

Poetry

Leza Lowitz's poems cross datelines, cultures and histories. With remarkable ease she combines moments of intense personal reflection and memory with insights into settings and events which have loomed over our century. These poems, placed in Key West, Chiapas, San Francisco, Berlin, Kyoto, Okinawa and Tokyo, are filled with unexpected gifts--the smell of rice cakes baking in tiny kitchens on the streets of Tokyo, a limbless toy soldier washed up on a beach in Okinawa, stones from a trout's belly piled "on the edge of the rough blue plate like a blessing in the rain." Lowitz's poems are like passionate letters from a traveler awake not only to what is around her but to the forces of nature and history which brought the present world to light.--Paul Bailiff, Creative Writing Department, San Francisco State University

Old Ways to Fold New Paper

Wandering Mind Books

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Up From the Sea

Up From the Sea

Up From the Sea

Beautiful Japan: A Souvenir

Jet Black and the Ninja Wind: British Edition

Jet Black and the Ninja Wind

Jet Black and the Ninja Wind: British Edition

Green Tea To Go: Stories from Tokyo

100 Aspects of the Moon

Old Ways to Fold New Paper