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  Afterword

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Copyright

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  UNDER THE BROKEN SKY. Copyright © 2019 by Mariko Nagai. All rights reserved.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Nagai, Mariko, author.

  Title: Under the broken sky / Mariko Nagai.

  Description: First edition. | New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019. | “Christy Ottaviano Books.” | Summary: When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018021063 | ISBN 978-1-250-15921-2 (hardcover)

  Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939–1945—China—Manchuria—Juvenile fiction. | Manchuria (China)—History—1931–1945—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Novels in verse. | World War, 1939–1945—China—Manchuria—Fiction. | Manchuria (China)—History—1931–1945—Fiction. | Survival—Fiction. | Refugees—Fiction. | Sisters—Fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.5.N34 Un 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018021063

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  First edition, 2019

  e-ISBN: 9781250159229