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Author Stelson, Caren Barzelay, author.

Title Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story / Caren Stelson.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, 2016.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  940.54 Stelson    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Non-Fiction  J 940.54 Ste    ---  Available
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.
Grades 10 & up.
850L Lexile.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject Yasui, Sachiko -- Juvenile literature.
Yasui, Sachiko.
Yasui, Sachiko.
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- Juvenile literature.
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi (Japan)
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi (Japan)
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
ISBN 9781467789035 (library binding)

 
    
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