Grenade
About this book
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will change his life forever.
Subjects
- campaigns
- children's fiction
- fiction
- history
- japanese
- juvenile fiction
- marines
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2018-10-28
- okinawa island (japan), fiction
- ryukyuans
- survival
- survival, fiction
- war
- war stories
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war, 1939-1945, fiction