The Last Paper Crane

Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, joint winner of the UKLA 11-14 Book Award 2021 and winner of the Warwickshire Schools Library Award.

About the author

Kerry Drewery is the author of the CELL 7 trilogy, the first of which was shortlisted for the Lancashire Libraries Book of the Year 2018 and has been translated into more than a dozen languages, as well as two other highly acclaimed YA novels: A BRIGHTER FEAR, 2012 (which was Love Reading 4 Kids Book of the Month and shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award) and A DREAM OF LIGHTS, 2013 (which was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, awarded Highly Commended at the North East Teen Book Awards and shortlisted for the Hampshire Independent Schools Book Awards). Both were published by HarperCollins in the UK and Callenbach in The Netherlands.

Summary

Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, joint winner of the UKLA 11-14 Book Award 2021 and winner of the Warwickshire Schools Library Award.

Foreword

The haunting story of a promise made long ago ... a powerful novel set in contemporary Japan and also in 1945, Hiroshima, the day the nuclear bomb was so devastatingly dropped on the city

Product details

• Authors: Kerry Drewery, Drewery Kerry
• Assisted by: Natsko Seki (Illustration), Seki Natsko (Illustration)
• Publisher: Hot Key Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 19
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781471413537
• ISBN: 978-1-4714-1353-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age; Hiroshima, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Military & Wars, Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage social issues: War and conflict issues, Children’s / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues