Peace is a chain reaction : how World War II Japanese balloon bombs brought people of two nations together

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Peace is a chain reaction : how World War II Japanese balloon bombs brought people of two nations together

(2022)

By: Stone, Tanya Lee

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

Y/940.544/STONE,T

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Kids' Nonfiction	Y/940.544/STONE,T	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2022
©2022

EDITION

First edition

DESCRIPTION

x, 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780763676865, 0763676861 :, 0763676861, 9780763676865

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

"The endpapers illustrate all the known balloon bomb sighting, landing, or recovery locations in the United States and Mexico." -- Title page verso

"From an award-winning author comes a vivid depiction of an act of war from opposing sides of the conflict in World War II—and a rare reconciliation and wish for peace that evolved years later." -- Publisher's description

"A Junior Library Guild selection" -- Title page verso

In May, 1945 two teenagers contemplated carrying out a plot to blow up the Tule Lake Relocation Center, in California. At its peak there were nearly nineteen thousand people of Japanese descent being held there by the American government. Stone lays the global groundwork for the event, before zeroing in on the lives of the people involved. She provides an intimate look at how their changing perspectives affected their actions. Despite the devastating pain and destruction caused by war, peace can be a chain reaction. -- adapted from Chapter One and jacket

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