Deep gratitude to Caitlyn Dlouhy for her patience in letting me pursue this story at my own pace, and to Holly McGhee for making this collaboration possible.
Deepest respect and admiration for the resilience of the people of Japan, especially the people of the Northeast.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Annie Donwerth-chikamatsu’s debut novel, Somewhere Among, based on life in a bicultural multi-generational home in Tokyo, won the Freeman Book Award, SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, Writers’ League of Texas Book Award, and was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. She still lives in Tokyo, Japan, after raising two children and experiencing the 2011 earthquake and aftershocks. Since inheriting garden work from Great-grandfather and Grandfather, she has spent a lot more time gardening. It keeps her grounded. Visit her online at anniedonwerth-chikamatsu.com.
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A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book
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Somewhere Among
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2020 by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Donwerth-Chikamatsu, Annie, author.
Title: Beyond me / Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu.
Description: First edition. | New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020. | “A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book.” | Audience: Ages 8–12. | Audience: Grades 4–6. | Summary: In the aftermath of a major earthquake, eleven-year-old Maya overcomes her own fear to help others at home and in northeast Japan, where a tsunami caused great damage. Includes author’s note about the facts behind the story.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019034919 (print) | LCCN 2019034920 (eBook) | ISBN 9781481437899 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481437912 (eBook)
Subjects: CYAC: Novels in verse. | Earthquakes—Fiction. | Survival—Fiction. | Family life—Japan—Fiction. | Japan—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.5.D66 Bey 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.5.D66 (eBook) |DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019034919
LC eBook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019034920
