The blossom and the firefly /
Smith, Sherri L.,
The blossom and the firefly / Sherri L. Smith. - 310 pages : map ; 22 cm
Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary. Japan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only mission. He believes he is ready to die for his country . . . until he meets Hana. Hana hasn't been the same since the day she was buried alive in a collapsed trench during a bomb raid. She wonders if it would have been better to have died that day . . . until she meets Taro. A song will bring them together. The war will tear them apart. Is it possible to live an entire lifetime in eight short days?
9781524737900 1524737909
2019005509
World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Fiction.
Kamikaze pilots--Fiction.
Musicians--Fiction.
Families--Japan--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.
The blossom and the firefly / Sherri L. Smith. - 310 pages : map ; 22 cm
Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary. Japan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only mission. He believes he is ready to die for his country . . . until he meets Hana. Hana hasn't been the same since the day she was buried alive in a collapsed trench during a bomb raid. She wonders if it would have been better to have died that day . . . until she meets Taro. A song will bring them together. The war will tear them apart. Is it possible to live an entire lifetime in eight short days?
9781524737900 1524737909
2019005509
World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Fiction.
Kamikaze pilots--Fiction.
Musicians--Fiction.
Families--Japan--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.