An excellent middle-grade work describing what happens to one survivor of Nagasaki's bombing. I felt deeply for Sachiko, and it made me want to learn more about the Japanese front of WWII. I might be biased in my reading, but does it feel like proportionally there is more middle-grade literature about the European side of things and the homefront than about the Japanese front? Hopefully this will inspire people to learn more about that horrific side of the war (although really, all sides of war are full of horror.)