W. Ross Macdonald School Library

And Then the Sky Exploded /

by Poulsen, David A., Published by : Dundurn Press, (Toronto :) Physical details: 206 pages ; 21 cm ISBN:9781459736375.
Subject(s): Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Fiction. | Atomic bomb -- Fiction. | Great-grandfathers -- Fiction. | FICTION / General. | Authors, Canadian. | Canadian fiction.
Year: 2016 Item type: Print List(s) this item appears in: Red Maple 2018
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"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."--Publisher's description

Middle grade / teen.

Issued also in electronic formats.

Red Maple Award official selection, 2018

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