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 peopleA 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