Sachiko / Stelson, Caren Barzelay

"Shares the true story of a young girl who survived the atomic bomb and chronicles her long journey to find peace."--Publisher.

Tells the true story of six'year'old Sachiko Yasui's miraculous survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath.

August 5, 1942, began like any other day for six-year-old Sachiko. Her country was at war, she didn't have enough to eat. At 11:01 a.m., she was playing outdoors with four other children. Moments later, those children were all dead. An atomic bomb had exploded just half a mile away.