Grenade

Alan Gratz

Grenade
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Scholastic
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 January 2019
Pages
288
ISBN
9781407194172

Grenade

Alan Gratz

It’s 1945, and the world is in the grip of war.

Hideki lives with his family on the island of

Okinawa, near Japan. When the Second World

War crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted to fight

for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade

and a set of instructions: Don’t come back until you’ve killed

an American soldier.

Ray, a young American Marine,

has just landed on Okinawa. This is Ray’s first-ever battle,

and he doesn’t know what to expect – or if he’ll

make it out alive. All he knows that the enemy is everywhere.

Hideki and Ray each fight their way across the island, surviving

heart-pounding ambushes and dangerous

traps. But then the two of them collide

in the middle of the battle… And choices they make in that single

instant will change everything.

Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, returns

with this high-octane story of how fear and war tear us apart,

but how hope and redemption tie us together.

Reviews for Refugee:

An absolute must read for people of all ages - Hannah

Greendale, Goodreads

Like RJ Palacio’s Wonder, this book should be mandatory reading…

  • Skip, Goodreads

I liked how the book linked history with adventure, and combined

to make a realistic storyline for all three characters - AJH,

aged 11, Toppsta

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