Description
As the Battle of Okinawa ignites in 1945, fourteen-year-old Hideki—caught between fear, duty, and survival—finds himself drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps and handed two grenades with orders to attack American soldiers. Small for his age and desperate to avoid becoming a weapon, he instead clings to a private, painful motive: to confront the person who has hurt him most. Across the island’s chaos, Hideki’s journey forces him to reckon with loyalty, identity, and the brutal ways war reshapes ordinary lives. In Alan Gratz’s gripping, emotionally charged storytelling, the story builds toward a life-altering choice that reveals how courage and conscience can collide when there’s no safe way to be innocent.
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Published Jan 1, 2018
ISBN: 9781338245691
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First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Grenade by Alan Gratz.