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And Then the Sky Exploded (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781459736375)
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x2018 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.
Author: David A. Poulsen
ISBN-10: 1459736370
ISBN-13: 9781459736375
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
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.
Author: David A. Poulsen
ISBN-10: 1459736370
ISBN-13: 9781459736375
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
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
By David A. Poulsen
xDavid A. Poulsen has been a broadcaster, teacher, football coach, and actor, who spends eighty to one hundred days each year as a visiting author in schools across Canada. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Old Man, which was shortlisted for the Forest of Reading White Pine award, and Numbers which won the Sakura Medal in Japan. He lives in the foothills west of Claresholm, Alberta.
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