And Then the Sky Exploded
David A. Poulsen$11.04
$12.99
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 11/15/2016
ISBN: 9781459736375
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
Review Citations: Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2016 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2016
Booklist 11/01/2016 pg. 56
School Library Journal 11/01/2016 pg. 96
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 11/15/2016
ISBN: 9781459736375
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
Review Citations: Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2016 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2016
Booklist 11/01/2016 pg. 56
School Library Journal 11/01/2016 pg. 96