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

Title
Peace is a chain reaction : how World War II Japanese balloon bombs brought people of two nations together / Tanya Lee Stone ; [foreword by Ben Takeshita ; illustrations by Yumeno Furukawa].
Author
Stone, Tanya Lee
Publication
  • Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Takeshita, Ben
  • Furukawa, Yumeno
Description
x, 165 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
Summary
  • "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.
  • 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.
Subject
  • Takeshita, Yuzuru John, 1926-2016 > Juvenile literature
  • 1939-1945
  • Bombing, Aerial > Oregon > Juvenile literature
  • Bombing, Aerial > United States > Juvenile literature
  • Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Juvenile literature
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Equipment and supplies > Juvenile literature
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese > Juvenile literature
  • World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Juvenile literature
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Juvenile literature
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Personal narratives > Juvenile literature
  • World War, 1939-1945 > America > Personal narratives > Juvenile literature
  • Bombing, Aerial
  • Equipment and supplies
  • Military operations, Aerial > Japanese
  • Japanese Americans
  • Oregon > History > Juvenile literature
  • America
  • Japan
  • Oregon
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Illustrated works.
  • Instructional and educational works.
  • Juvenile works.
  • Personal narratives.
Note
  • "The endpapers illustrate all the known balloon bomb sighting, landing, or recovery locations in the United States and Mexico." -- Title page verso.
  • "A Junior Library Guild selection" -- Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [152]-157) and index.
Call Number
JFF 23-30
ISBN
  • 9780763676865
  • 0763676861
LCCN
2022901780
OCLC
1294919564
Author
Stone, Tanya Lee, author.
Title
Peace is a chain reaction : how World War II Japanese balloon bombs brought people of two nations together / Tanya Lee Stone ; [foreword by Ben Takeshita ; illustrations by Yumeno Furukawa].
Publisher
Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Reinforced trade edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [152]-157) and index.
Chronological Term
1939-1945
Added Author
Takeshita, Ben, writer of foreword.
Furukawa, Yumeno, illustrator.
Research Call Number
JFF 23-30
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