And Then the Sky Exploded
Overview
2018 Red Maple Award - Shortlisted - High Plains Book Award - Shortlisted, Young Adult category
When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends ... somehow.
While attending the funeral of his great-grandfather, ninth-grader Christian Larkin learns that the man he loved and respected was a member of the Manhattan Project, the team that designed and created the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War.
On a school trip to Japan, Chris meets eighty-one-year-old Yuko, who was eleven when the first bomb exploded over Hiroshima, horribly injuring her. Christian is determined to do something to make up for what his great-grandfather did. But after all this time, what can one teenager really do? His friends tell him it's a stupid idea, that there's nothing he can do. And maybe they're right.
But maybe, just maybe ... they're wrong.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781459736375
- ISBN-10: 1459736370
- Publisher: Dundurn Press
- Publish Date: November 2016
- Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.35 pounds
- Page Count: 208
- Reading Level: Ages 12-15
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