Description |
144 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color photographs ; 27 cm |
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Study Program |
MG RL 5.7 4.0 184498 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Home in Nagasaki -- Evacuation -- An ordinary day -- Unspeakable seconds -- The end of the world -- Mizu -- "Enduring the unendurable" -- Two brothers -- Miracle -- A new beginning -- School -- Searching for hope -- A seed for the future -- Standing up to the bullies -- Another seed for the future -- Misa and the orphans of war -- Father -- Sachiko -- A path to peace -- "The world house" -- Cicada years -- Sachiko's fiftieth anniversary. |
Indexed In: |
Junior Library Guild |
Summary |
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. |
Audience |
Ages 15 & up. |
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Grades 10 & up. |
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850L Lexile. |
Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG) |
Subject |
Yasui, Sachiko -- Juvenile literature.
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Yasui, Sachiko.
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Yasui, Sachiko.
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Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- Juvenile literature.
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Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi (Japan)
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Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi (Japan)
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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ISBN |
9781467789035 (library binding) |
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