Based on author Kathleen Burkinshaw's mother's firsthand experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The Last Cherry Blossom hopes to warn readers of the immense damage nuclear war can bring, while reminding them that the "enemy" in any war is often not so different from ourselves/5(). The Last Cherry Blossom opens on our main character, Yuriko, hiding under a school desk, torn between the panic of another air raid and her desire to receive a grade on her thoroughly-researched family history project. These sorts of harrowing contrasts continue throughout the story, growing only more powerful as Kathleen Burkinshaw immerses us in the world of a year old girl trying to live her life in Hiroshima /5. Based on author Kathleen Burkinshaw's mother's firsthand experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The Last Cherry Blossom hopes to warn readers of the immense damage nuclear war can bring, while reminding them that the "enemy" in any war is often not so different from www.doorway.rus:
Author Kathleen Burkinshaw's historical novel offers young readers insight into how children lived during the war, while also introducing them to Japanese culture. Based loosely on her mother's firsthand experience of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The Last Cherry Blossom offers readers a warning of the immense damage nuclear war. Kathleen Burkinshaw is a Japanese American author the daughter of a Hiroshima survivor residing in Charlotte, NC. She's a wife, mom to a daughter about to graduate from college, and owns a dog who is a kitchen ninja. She has presented her mother's experience in Hiroshima to middle and high schools for the past 9 years. Summary of author's MG historical fiction, The Last Cherry Blossom(Sky Pony Press,) based on events in her mother's life in Hiroshima during WWII,and sur.
The Last Cherry Blossom opens on our main character, Yuriko, hiding under a school desk, torn between the panic of another air raid and her desire to receive a grade on her thoroughly-researched family history project. These sorts of harrowing contrasts continue throughout the story, growing only more powerful as Kathleen Burkinshaw immerses us in the world of a year old girl trying to live her life in Hiroshima during World War II, the year before the atomic bomb was dropped. Based loosely on her mother's firsthand experience of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The Last Cherry Blossom offers readers a warning of the immense damage nuclear war can bring, while reminding them that the real "enemy" in any war is often ourselves. Before Yuriko leaves school in this opening scene of Kathleen Burkinshaw’s The Last Cherry Blossom, she asks her teacher for her grade on the ancestral project she just completed. Yuriko is proud her lineage traces back to samurai warriors in the s.
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