Noma Children's Literature Award のまじどうぶんげいしょう
Edition 62 (2024)
Children's literatureNon-fiction
Winners
1 peopleHiro, a first-year high-school student, decides to kill a friend named Sugimori and calls his older brother Mito. Advised to put his reasons into words for the court, Hiro begins to confront what he has left undone and the event that led to his decision. This work of children's literature follows a wounded heart as it finds its way back to connection.
A story of reclaiming a wounded heart.
208 pages
emotional woundsfriendshiprecoveryfinding wordsadolescence