Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, joint winner of the
UKLA 11-14 Book Award 2021 and winner of the Warwickshire Schools
Library Award. A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her
grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He
says that he has never got over something that happened in his past
and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is. We are
taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy
chatting at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later the horrific
nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. What follows is a searing
account of the blinding flash, the harrowing search for family and
the devastation both human and physical. There is also the very
moving and human story as the two teenage boys with great bravery
search for and find Keiko, Hiro's five-year-old sister. But then
Keiko is lost when Mizuki's grandfather has no option but to leave
her in a safe place while he goes for help... Despite a desperate
search in the aftermath of the bomb, where he leaves origami folded
paper cranes for Keiko with his address on everywhere a survivor
could be, he cannot find her... A powerful novel that, despite its
harrowing subject matter, has hope at its heart
General
Imprint: |
Hot Key Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2022 |
Authors: |
Kerry Drewery
|
Illustrators: |
Natsko Seki
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4714-1353-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-4714-1353-5 |
Barcode: |
9781471413537 |
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