Peace Is a Chain Reaction: How World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations Together

Peace Is a Chain Reaction: How World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations Together
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9780763676865
ISBN-13 : 0763676861
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Book Synopsis Peace Is a Chain Reaction: How World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations Together by : Tanya Lee Stone

Download or read book Peace Is a Chain Reaction: How World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations Together written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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