Title:
Temple alley summer / Sachiko Kashiwaba ; illustrations by Miho Satake ; translated from the Japanese by Avery Fischer Udagawa.
ISBN:
9781632063038
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
Brooklyn, New York : Yonder, [an imprint of] Restless Books, 2021.
Physical Description:
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
"First published as Kimyōji yokochō no natsu in 2011 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo"--Title page verso.
Awards Note:
Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award (2022)
Summary:
"One rainy night, Kazu sees a strange figure in a white kimono sneak out of his house--was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? The next day at school, the very same person is sitting in his class--and all his friends are convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years. If that isn't weird enough, Kazu learns that his house is in the exact location of an ancient temple called Kimyō, which, legend has it, could bring the dead back to life! Kazu sets out to discover what happened to Kimyō Temple and if the rumors of its power are true. His investigation draws the unwanted attention of his neighbor Ms. Minakami and his mysterious new classmate Akari, who is definitely not what she seems. Now, Kazu and Akari must join forces to find and protect the source of the temple's power, before it's too late"--Provided by publisher.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 8 512775
Genre:
Audience:
Decoding demand: 95 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 87 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile
Audience:
620L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1261259497
Availability:
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