01617cam a2200289 4500 498464964 TxAuBib 20210330120000.0 181108s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781407194172 paperback 1407194178 paperback (OCoLC)1100580175 TxAuBib Gratz, Alan. Grenade / Alan Gratz. London : Scholastic, 2019. ©2019. 267 pages ; 20 cm. 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 WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps 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 expector if he'll make it out alive. He just knows that the enemy is everywhere, with 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. Ages: 12+. 20210330. World War II 1939-1945 Japan Okinawa Island Juvenile fiction. World War II 1939-1945 Young adult fiction. Survival Juvenile fiction. Ryukyuans Young adult fiction. Japanese Young adult fiction.