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And Then the Sky Exploded

And Then the Sky Exploded



von: David A. Poulsen

7,49 €

Verlag: Dundurn
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 22.10.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781459736399
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 208

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Titelbeschreibung

<i>2018 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted • High Plains Book Award — Shortlisted, Young Adult category</i>
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<b>When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends … somehow.</b>
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<br> 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.
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<br> 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
<i>nothing</i> he can do. And maybe they’re right.
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<br> But maybe, just maybe … they’re wrong.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Ninth-grader Christian Deaver learns his great-grandfather was part of the team that built the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II. During a school trip to Japan, he meets a Hiroshima survivor and tries to make amends. But what can one teenager do?

Autorenportrait

David 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
<i>Old Man</i>, which was shortlisted for the Forest of Reading White Pine award, and
<i>Numbers</i> which won the Sakura Medal in Japan. He lives in the foothills west of Claresholm, Alberta.

Sonderbeitrag

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<li>A ninth-grader learns about the <i>Hibakusha</i> (Japanese atomic-bomb survivors), their struggles, and his own grandfather's role in them</li>
<li>A compelling look at the horror of war through the eyes of those who lived it and those who haven’t</li>
<li>Story is seen through the eyes of a group of North American teenagers grappling with intense and confusing feelings about the suffering of WWII</li>
<li>Author David Poulsen, having researched and written award-winning books about wars in Vietnam and France, creates a well-researched look at the horror of war in Japan and its impact on innocent people</li>
<li>Author’s previous book, <i>Old Man</i>, was shortlisted for the Forest of Reading White Pine Award and <i>Numbers</i> was awarded the Sakura Medal (Japan), and was a finalist for the R. Ross Annett Award (Alberta) and <i>ForeWord Magazine</i>’s Book of the Year Award for Young Adult Fiction</li>
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