And Then the Sky Exploded

By David A. Poulsen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459736370
• ISBN13: 9781459736375
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12