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Hiroshima No Pika

<p>Hiroshima No Pika</p>

by Toshi Maruki

illustrated by Toshi Maruki

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Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 5

Grade Level Equivalent: 4.8

Lexile® measure: 620L

Genre/Theme:

  • Historical Fiction

Topics:

  • Japanese
  • World War II
  • Death, Grief, and Loss

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About This Book

The heartbreaking experiences of seven-year-old Mii and her parents, which began at 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima.

August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m.
Hiroshima. Japan

A little girl and her parents
are eating breakfast,
and then it happened.
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA.

This book is dedicated to
the fervent hope the Flash
will never happen again,
anywhere.

"A forceful statement of the need for nuclear disarmament". — Publishers Weekly

ALA Notable Children's Book.

About the Authors or Illustrators

Toshi Maruki: Toshi Maruki is highly regarded as an artist in her native Japan. Since the end of Worl War II, she and her husband Iri Maruki have been ... Read More.


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