And Then the Sky Exploded

And Then the Sky Exploded - Paperback

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And Then the Sky Exploded

And Then the Sky Exploded - Paperback

by David A. Poulsen
$12.99
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by David A. Poulsen (Author)

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.

Author Biography

David A. Poulsen has been a broadcaster, teacher, football coach, and actor, who spends eighty to one hundred days each year as a visiting author in schools across Canada. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Old Man, which was shortlisted for the Forest of Reading White Pine award, and Numbers which won the Sakura Medal in Japan. He lives in the foothills west of Claresholm, Alberta.

Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.8 x 4.9 IN
Publication Date: November 15, 2016
ISBN9781459736375
Author David A. Poulsen
PublisherDundurn Press
GenreYoung adult and Family
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids and Teens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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