Richard Marshall

Shizumi Shigeto Manale

After months of seeking family members with the aunt she was visiting when Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, seven-year-old Hanako finally goes back to school and gets on with a life that leads, eventually, to her visiting Washington, D.C. and the church that provided them humanitarian aid. Based on first-hand accounts and interviews with survivors, and illustrated with paintings by Hiroshima children.

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