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Juvenile Literature Newcomer Award じどうぶんげいしんじんしょう

Edition 48 (2019)

Original fairy talesNovelsNon-fictionPoetryChildren's songs

Winners

1 people
Morino Komichi もりの こみち award

A children’s novel about Sora, a new middle school student who discovers haiku through the literary club and begins to put hard-to-say feelings and shifting friendships into seventeen syllables. Through haiku walks and club meetings, a quiet girl gradually finds her own voice.

An encounter with haiku slowly changes Sora’s school life and the feelings she keeps inside.

186 pages
children’s literaturehaikumiddle schoolliterary clubfriendship