Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.
Recounts the history of five blowups that continued to rattle the world long after the smoke had cleared and embers cooled. From a mountaintop in Indonesia to an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the explosions explored here caused widespread peril and destruction.
Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was collecting, what felt like to her, rehearsed interviews from atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima until the September 11th attacks, which made the interviewees open up more, but also made the author reflect on her own life.
"From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak"--Provided by publisher.
"Explains the leadup to the bombing [of Hiroshima], what the . . . results of it were, and how the threat of atomic war has colored world events since"--Provided by publisher.
A biography of Sadako Sasaki, who contacted leukemia after the dropping of the atomic bomb and how she gave herself the goal of folding one thousand paper cranes.
"Explains the leadup to the bombing [of Hiroshima], what the . . . results of it were, and how the threat of atomic war has colored world events since"--Provided by publisher.
