num_pages: 320
description: A WWII romance between two Japanese teens caught in the cogs of an unwinnable war.Japan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only mission. He believes he is ready to die for his country . . . until he meets Hana. Hana hasn't been the same since the day she was buried alive in a collapsed trench during a bomb raid. She wonders if it would have been better to have died that day . . . until she meets Taro.A song will bring them together. The war will tear them apart. Is it possible to live an entire lifetime in eight short days?
language: English
title: The Blossom and the Firefly
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers