Tsunami Girl

Fifteen-year-old Yuki is struggling at school with her confidence, and goes to Japan to stay with her grandfather, a well-known manga artist and to whom she is very close. But during her visit, a calamitous event occurs - the March 2011 East Coast Earthquake and Tsunami - and her beloved Grandpa is lost.

Yuki and her friend Taka must make sense of the terrible situation and come to terms with the loss of their life as they knew it - and see that through renewal and with resilience, they can emerge from this tragedy with optimism for the future. Interwoven with Japanese folk tales, modern-day ghost stories, and the creation of her very own vibrant manga hero, Yuki finds the courage to overcome extraordinary odds, and take her first steps into the world that lies beyond catastrophe.

Told through both prose and manga, this story for young adults will touch the heart of any reader.

Julian Sedgewick is the author of numerous books for children and young adults, and co-author with his late brother, Marcus, of the graphic novel Dark Satanic Mills and illustrated novel Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black.

On the way to realising his childhood ambition to write, he read East Asian Studies and Philosophy at Cambridge University, before working variously as an academic bookseller, painter, researcher and script developer for film and TV, and Zen shiatsu therapist.

Julian lives near Ely, Cambridgeshire, is married and has two grown-up sons.

Age group:

• 13-18 years

Genre:

• Comics & graphic novels
• Family
• Young adult

Written by: Julian Sedgwick

Illustrated by:

• Chie Kutsuwada

Format: Softback / Paperback

Published by: Guppy Books

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