A 2023 Nerdy Book Award Winner

modern fairy tale

and helping others

the lone castaway looks around the shore

tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories

Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery Kat Yuen A 2023 Nerdy Book AwardA poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity. Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, she knows all too well what its like to be a part of two different worlds but never feeling as though you belong to either. Now on the brink of adulthood,