High Plains Book Award -- Shortlisted, Young Adult category When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends .
somehow.
While attending the funeral of his great-grandfather, ninth-grader Christian Larkin learns that the man he loved and respected was a member of the Manhattan Project, the team that designed and created the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War.
On a school trip to Japan, Chris meets eighty-one-year-old Yuko, who was eleven when the first bomb exploded over Hiroshima, horribly injuring her.
Christian is determined to do something to make up for what his great-grandfather did.
But after all this time, what can one teenager really do? His friends tell him it's a stupid idea, that there's nothing he can do.
And maybe they're right.
But maybe, just maybe .
they're wrong.
