Sakura loves warm spring days and picnic lunches, and most of all she loves sitting underneath the cherry blossom trees with her grandmother. But now Sakura and her parents are moving to America, and her grandmother is staying back in Japan.

Told in a series of poems inspired by traditional Japanese verse, this story of one little girl's immigration experience explores the loneliness of a new home, the healing power of friendship and the joy of finding the familiar in unexpected places. 

From the dust jacket