My second middle grade novel, Beyond Me, set in west Tokyo during the aftershocks of The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, has been awarded a Freeman Award honorable mention for Young Adult/Middle School Literature by The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA) of the

Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS), and Asia for Educators (AFE).

I appreciate the work they do to promote teaching about and books about Asia.