This children's novel follows Hayate, a sixth grader who, amid life with a violent father and an evasive mother, begins searching for a place for his fear and anger after glimpsing a girl on the balcony across the way.

A girl crying appears on a balcony where no one should be.

Recorded as a runner-up for the 20th Long-Form Children's Literature Newcomer Award, this work quietly traces a child's unease and growth through the sound of wind and the feel of the seasons.

The sound of the wind carries feelings that have not yet become words.

Recorded as a runner-up for the 20th Long-Form Children's Literature Newcomer Award, this children's novel uses the image of a blue summer to capture a child's shifting emotions.

The feel of a blue summer stirs feelings that have not yet become words.