Research Catalog
The blossom and the firefly
- Title
- The blossom and the firefly / Sherri L. Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Sherri L.
- Publication
- New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2020]
Details
- Description
- 310 pages : maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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?
- Subject
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Fiction
- Kamikaze pilots > Fiction
- Musicians > Fiction
- Family life > Japan > Fiction
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Japon > Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Roman pour jeunes adultes
- JUVENILE FICTION > General
- Family members > Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > Juvenile fiction
- Kamikaze pilots > Juvenile fiction
- Musicians > Juvenile fiction
- Family > Juvenile fiction
- Family life > Fiction
- Japan > History > 1926-1945 > Fiction
- Japan
- Japan > History > 1868-1945 > Juvenile fiction
- Japan > History > 1868-1945 > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Young adult fiction.
- Young adult works.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliograghical References (page 306-307).
- ISBN
- 9781524737900
- 1524737909
- 9781524737924
- 1524737925
- 9781524737917 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019005509
- OCLC
- 1088600988
- Author
- Smith, Sherri L., author.
- Title
- The blossom and the firefly / Sherri L. Smith.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliograghical References (page 306-307).
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945