Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780544430761)

An Orbis Pictus Honor Book for Outstanding Nonfiction 2019

In this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII--the only enemy ever to do so--and comes back 20 years later to apologize.

The devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drew the United States into World War II in 1941. But few are aware that several months later, the Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped bombs in the woods outside a small town in coastal Oregon. This is the story of those bombings, and what came after, when Fujita returned to Oregon twenty years later, this time to apologize.
This remarkable true story, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, is an important and moving account of reconciliation after war.

Author: Marc Tyler Nobleman
ISBN-10: 054443076X
ISBN-13: 9780544430761
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2018
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 10.00h x 11.30w x 0.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 197537 / Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story


Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2018 pg. 104
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 09/03/2018
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2018
Booklist 10/01/2018 pg. 40
School Library Journal 11/01/2018 pg. 87
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average