Title:
The blossom and the firefly / Sherri L. Smith.
ISBN:
9781524737900
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
310 pages : map ; 22 cm
Summary:
Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.
Japan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only mission. He believes he is ready to die for his country . . . until he meets Hana. Hana hasn't been the same since the day she was buried alive in a collapsed trench during a bomb raid. She wonders if it would have been better to have died that day . . . until she meets Taro. A song will bring them together. The war will tear them apart. Is it possible to live an entire lifetime in eight short days?
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader UG 5.2 10 509570
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Genre:
Audience:
HL720L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1088600988
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
