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And Then the Sky Exploded

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2018 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.

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    Publisher: Dundurn Press

    Kindle Book

    • Release date: October 22, 2016

    OverDrive Read

    • ISBN: 9781459736399
    • File size: 1123 KB
    • Release date: October 22, 2016

    EPUB ebook

    • ISBN: 9781459736399
    • File size: 1123 KB
    • Release date: October 22, 2016

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    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook

    Languages

    English

    Levels

    Lexile® Measure:840
    Text Difficulty:4-5

    2018 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.

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