Shipping:
FREE
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). Paperback. Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, joint winner of the UKLA 11-14 Book Award 2021 and winner of the Warwickshire Schools Library Award.A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is.We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. What follows is a searing account of the blinding flash, the harrowing search for family and the devastation both human and physical. There is also the very moving and human story as the two teenage boys with great bravery search for and find Keiko, Hiro's five-year-old sister. But then Keiko is lost when Mizuki's grandfather has no option but to leave her in a safe place while he goes for help. Despite a desperate search in the aftermath of the bomb, where he leaves origami folded paper cranes for Keiko with his address on everywhere a survivor could be, he cannot find her. A powerful novel that, despite its harrowing subject matter, has hope at its heart The haunting story of a promise made long ago . a powerful novel set in contemporary Japan and also in 1945, Hiroshima, the day the nuclear bomb was so devastatingly dropped on the city Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781471413537
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # GO-9781471413537
Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9781471413537
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Seller Inventory # B9781471413537
Book Description Condition: New. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition. Seller Inventory # bk1471413535xvz189zvxnew
Book Description Condition: New. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). Seller Inventory # 44674375-n
Book Description Condition: New. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). Seller Inventory # 9781471413537
Book Description Condition: New. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). Seller Inventory # 9781471413537
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # H8-9781471413537
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Seki, Natsko (illustrator). Neuware - Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, joint winner of the UKLA 11-14 Book Award 2021 and winner of the Warwickshire Schools Library Award. 304 pp. Deutsch. Seller Inventory # 9781471413537