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Winner, Colorado Book Award for Young Adult Literature; New York Public Library Books for the Teenage; VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers; Scholastic Book Fair/Clubs Bestselling Title; Finalist, Louisiana Young Readers Award; Girl's Life magazine selected Click Here as one of their "Top Ten" among books, TV, movies, and more ...
Tengo Yamada (screenplay), Keiji Nakazawa (manga) The story of Gen Nakaoka and his family, who lived in Hiroshima at the time it was atom-bombed, and their struggles and trials amidst the nuclear holocaust. Damnation Alley: 1977 Roger Zelazny (novel) Wizards: 1977 Virus: 1980 Malevil: 1981 Mad Max 2: 1981 Also known as The Road Warrior. The New ...
How I Survived Middle School is a series of young adult novels by American author Nancy Krulik. [1] The series centers around a preteen girl named Jenny McAfee as she enters and goes through middle school. The series has gained popularity among both young adults and librarians for the interactions built into the series for readers, such as self ...
She was born Barbara Dorrit Leonard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the only child of Dr. Sterling Andrus Leonard, [1] a Professor of English and Education at the University of Wisconsin and prolific author of books on English composition and literature [2] and Minnetta Florence Sammis, [3] [4] an educator who evaluated the safety of new toys for children.
In 2018, the first of six I Survived books in Spanish were released for the U.S. market: Sobreviví los Ataques de Tiburones de 1916 (I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916). In 2019, two more titles were released: "Sobreviví el Naufragio del Titanic, 1912 (I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912), and Sobreviví el Terremoto de San ...
Novels about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Books about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Hiroshima is a 1946 book by American author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting. [1]
Sakue Shimohira, 10 years old. Shimohira survived along with her sister, but lost her mother and brother to the bombing. Her sister later committed suicide. Kyoko Imori, 11 years old. Imori and her friend were the only initial survivors out of 620 students attending a Hiroshima school. Her friend died a week later from radiation poisoning.