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The Last Paper Crane

Author: Kerry Drewery
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ISBN: 9781471408472
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2020
Published By: Allen and Unwin
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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...
ISBN: 9781471408472
Number of Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Reading Level: Secondary
Published Date: 02-Apr-2020
Dimensions (mm): 215x135mm
Publisher: Allen and Unwin

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