Grenade, Alan Gratz Young Adult working-class suburb they've moved to

working-class suburb they've moved to

and her courage

and a bird‘s egg

the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars

Grenade, Alan Gratz Young Adult working-class suburb they've moved toTwo boys. Two grenades. The day the Americans land on Okinawa during World War II, the Japanese Army pulls Hideki Kaneshiro and all the other boys out of middle school and gives them each two grenades. One grenade, they tell Hideki, is to kill an American soldier. The other grenade is to kill himself. Ray Majors is a newly minted Marine from Nebraska, hitting the beach on Okinawa for his first action of World War II. He left home to get away from his