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Title	:	The Language Inside
Author	:	Holly Thompson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	May 14th 2013 by Delacorte
Categories	:	Young Adult. Poetry. Realistic Fiction. Contemporary. Fiction

The Language Inside Hardcover | Pages: 528 pages

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A nuanced novel in verse that explores identity in a multicultural world.

Emma Karas was raised in Japan; it's the country she calls home. But when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, Emma's family moves to a town outside Lowell, Massachusetts, to stay with Emma's grandmother while her mom undergoes treatment.

Emma feels out of place in the United States.She begins to have migraines, and longs to be back in Japan. At her grandmother's urging, she volunteers in a long-term care center to help Zena, a patient with locked-in syndrome, write down her poems. There, Emma meets Samnang, another volunteer, who assists elderly Cambodian refugees. Weekly visits to the care center, Zena's poems, dance, and noodle soup bring Emma and Samnang closer, until Emma must make a painful choice: stay in Massachusetts, or return home early to Japan.

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Original Title:	The Language Inside
ISBN:	0385739796 (ISBN13: 9780385739795)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.86 From 1314 Users | 150 Reviews

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Im a fan of Thompsons Orchards so I was gleeful when I got a copy of her latest verse novel at the ALA conference. Unfortunately, The Language Inside just did not do it for me the way I hoped it would.There are many reasons for that but first I must give credit where its due. The novel is very multicultural and inclusive of people with different experiences and from different parts of the world. It also discusses what it means when the language inside you is not the language you are expected to

REVIEW. First published June 17, 2013 (Booklist Online).Emma has lived in Japan nearly all of her life and spoke Japanese before she spoke English. But when Emmas mother develops breast cancer, her parents choose to move to Massachusetts for medical care, and Emma finds herself entering high school in a completely foreign world. With a little pushing from her grandmother, Emma becomes a volunteer poetry helper at a long-term care center. Another volunteer, a boy named Samnang, becomes Emmas

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This is the third of Holly Thompson's books I have read this year. They are so easy to read and it is a delight to be able to speed along so quickly. The characters Thompson creates are so genuine and likeable that it's sad to see them go at the end of the story. I love her celebration of diverse cultures and individuals - I always learn something new about other groups of people.

Don't get me wrong, this book had some interesting things to say about multiculturalism and the culture shock and process of acclimation that comes with moving to a new place, but I didn't feel that it was really well developed. Out of all the various themes in the book (cancer, moving, getting used to new lifestyles) I thought the most interesting one was the romantic sub-plot, when I think says a lot coming from someone who has lost enough loved ones to cancer, has moved a lot (and understand



This book is written in verse. Thumbing through it, you might think theres a poem per page. It looks that way because many pages are not full. The arrangement of the lines are certainly intentional and are often used to good effect, but I wasnt always sure about the page breaks, though I had no specific complaints. I chose the book because I wanted to get through some fiction this weekend and it looked short, which it was, but I may have moved too fast to give all of it, such as the page breaks,