Title: Grenade
Description: On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will change his life forever.
Subjects: War stories, Ryukyuans, Juvenile fiction, Japanese, Fiction, Campaigns, World War, 1939-1945, Survival, Marines, War, History, Children's fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Survival, fiction, Okinawa island (japan), fiction, nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2018-10-28, New York Times bestseller
Places: Japan, Okinawa-shi (Japan), Okinawa Island
Time periods: 20th century