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Grenade

by Alan Gratz

Synopsis

It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American soldier. Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. This is Ray's first-ever battle, and he doesn't know what to expect -- or if he'll make it out alive. He just knows that the enemy is everywhere. Hideki and Ray each fight their way across the island, surviving heart-pounding ambushes and dangerous traps. But then the two of them collide in the middle of the battle... And choices they make in that single instant will change everything. Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee , returns with this high-octane story of how fear and war tear us apart, but how hope and redemption tie us together.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2018
ISBN-13 9781338245691
ISBN-10 1338245694
Class Copyright
Publisher Scholastic, Incorporated
Subject
File Size 80 MB
Number of Pages 288
Length of Recording 5
Language ENG
Shelf No. NB628
Grade Range 4-7
Ages 9-12
Lexile 760L