| Record Number |
18330 |
| ISBN |
9781467789035 (hardback) |
| Location |
940.54 STE |
| Author |
Stelson, Caren Barzelay (author.). |
| Title |
Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story / Caren Stelson. |
| Published |
Minneapolis Carolrhoda Books, 2016. |
| ©2016 |
| Collation |
144 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits, genealogical table ; 27 cm. |
| Content types |
cartographic image |
| still image |
| text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-133, 136-140) and index. |
| Contents Note |
August 1945. Home in Nagasaki -- May-August 1945. Evacuation -- August 6, 1945. An ordinary day -- August 9, 1945. Unspeakable seconds -- August 9, 1945. The end of the world -- August 9-11, 1945. Mizu -- August 12-15, 1945. "Enduring the unendurable" -- August 15-Mid-September 1945. Two brothers -- Mid-September 1945-Late March 1946. Miracle -- Spring 1946. A new beginning -- April-December 1946. School -- December 1947. Searching for hope -- February 1, 1948. A seed for the future -- April 1948. Standing up to the bullies -- October 1948. Another seed for the future -- 1949-1954. Misa and the orphans of war -- 1955-1961. Father -- 1961-1962. Sachiko -- 1962. A path to peace -- 1963-1968. "The World House" -- 1968-1992. Cicada years -- August 1995. Sachiko's fiftieth anniversary. |
| Summary Note |
"August 9, 1945, began like any other day for six-year-old Sachiko. Her country was at war, she didn't have enough to eat. At 11.01 a.m., she was playing outdoors with four other children. Moments later, those children were all dead. An atomic bomb had exploded just half a mile away. In the days and months that followed, Sachiko lost family members, her hair fell out, she woke screaming in the night. When she was finally well enough to start school, other children bullied her. Through it all, she sought to understand what had happened, finding strength in the writings of Helen Keller, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. Based on extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson shares the true story of a young girl who survived the atomic bomb and chronicles her long journey to find peace." - Book flap. |
| Target Audience |
Grade 9 to 12. |
| Awards Note |
Sibert Informational Honor, 2017. |
| Personal Name |
Yasui, Sachiko |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi (Japan) |
| Women -- Japan -- Biography |
| Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Biography |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives |
| Young adult fiction nonfiction -- Biography & autobiography -- Women |
| Young adult fiction nonfiction -- History -- Military & Wars |
| Nagasaki (Japan.) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 |
