The Last Paper Crane

Synopsis

Nominated for the 2021 cilip carnegie medal, joint winner of the ukla 11-14 book award 2021 and winner of the warwickshire schools library award. A japanese teenager, mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is. We are taken to 1945, hiroshima, and mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend hiro. Moments later the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped on hiroshima.