Grenade [sound recording] / Alan Gratz.

Title:

ISBN:

9781338311006

Personal Author:

Gratz, Alan, 1972-

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

[New York] : Scholastic, [2018]

Physical Description:

5 audio discs (5 hr., 25 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from web page.

Compact discs.

Summary:

It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions. Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. This is Ray's first-ever battle, and he doesn't know what to expect. The choices they make in a single instant will change everything.

Geographic Term:

Okinawa-shi (Japan) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island -- Fiction.

Ryukyuans -- Fiction.

Japanese -- Fiction.

Marines -- Fiction

Survival -- Fiction

Genre:

Children's audiobooks

Historical fiction

War fiction