Yukie's Island: My Family's World War II Story

by Steve Sheinkin and Yukie Kimura

Book Overview

A moving picture book autobiography about a family's resilience and path to healing after the devastation of war.

It's 1945, the final year of World War II. Yukie Kimura is eight years old. She lives on a tiny island with a lighthouse in the north of Japan with her family, and she knows that the fighting that once felt so far away is getting closer.

Mornings spent helping her father tend to the lighthouse and adventuring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250206502
• ISBN13: 9781250206503
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3