Grenade, Alan Gratz Young Adult and a bird‘s egg

and a bird‘s egg

if they are lucky—and brave—enough to find each other

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Grenade, Alan Gratz Young Adult and a bird‘s eggTwo boys. Two grenades. The day the Americans land on Okinawa during World War II, the Japanese Army pulls Hideki Kaneshiro and all the other boys out of middle school and gives them each two grenades. One grenade, they tell Hideki, is to kill an American soldier. The other grenade is to kill himself. Ray Majors is a newly minted Marine from Nebraska, hitting the beach on Okinawa for his first action of World War II. He left home to get away from his