Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.
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Nahoko Uehashi ; illustrations by Yuta Onoda ; translated by Cathy Hirano.
"First published in English by Pushkin Press, 2018."
Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2020.
Batchelder Honor Book, 2020.
Translated from the Japanese.
