Author(s): David A. Poulsen
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 208
Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
Language: English
Date Published: 2016-11-15
Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 13mm
Publication City/Country: Toronto, Canada
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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.