Caren Stelson conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui. The resulting story chronicles Sachiko’s trauma and loss as well as her long journey to find peace, looking to her father, Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The author also includes chapters in between the narrative which gives excellent information about the bomb itself, the decision to use it, the peace movement in Japan after the war, and the nuclear proliferation and effort to stop it. I was interest to see that the slogan in Japan in protest of nuclear weapons: "Never again!" was the same thing used in reference to the Holocaust in Europe.(Nonfiction - 921/Yasui)
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Awards and Honors:
- 2016 National Book Award Longlist, Young People's Literature
- 2016 American Library Association Notable Book
- 2016 New York Public Library Best Books for Teens
- 2016 Junior Library Guild selection
- 2017 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award for Information Books, ALSC
- 2016 National Book Award Longlist, Young People's Literature
- Bomb: The Race to Bulil and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (Nonfiction 643.4/She)
- Awards and Honors:
- Winner of the 2013 Sibert Medal
- Winner of the 2013 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
- A 2013 Newbery Medal Honor Book
- 2012 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature
- National Book Awards Finalist
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- Bombs over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear Disaster by Connie Goldsmith (Nonfiction 623.4/Gol) Book Trailer
- Awards and Honors:
- Junior Library Guild selection 2014
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