BOOK LIST FOR CLASSROOM LIBRARY (GRADE 5-8)

 Photo Books

  • Hiromi Tsuchida, Hiroshima Collection (Tokyo: NHK Publication, 1995)

  • LIFE Godzilla: The King of The Monster (NY: LIFE, 2021)

Picture Books

  • Toshi Maruki, Hiroshima No Pika (NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1980)

Fiction

  • Eleanor Coerr, Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes (NY: Puffin Books, 2004)

  • John Hersey, Hiroshima (NY: Vintage, 1989)

  • Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2012) 

  • Theodre Taylor, The Bomb (NY: Harcourt, 2007)

  • Kathleen Burkinshaw, The Last Cherry Blossom (NY: Skypony, 2020)

  • Hisashi Inoue, The Face of Jizo (Komatsuza, 2004)

Nonfiction

  • Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (NY: Roaring Brook, 2018)

  • Michael Burgan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Atomic Bombings That Shook the World (North Mankato: Capstone Press, 2020)

  • James Yamazaki, Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995)

  • Jess Brallier, What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima (NY: Penguin Workshop, 2020)

Graphic Novels

  • Keiji Nakazawa, Barefoot Gen (SF: Last Gasp, 2004)

  • Fumiyo Kono, Town of Evening Calm Country of Cherry Blossoms (SF: Last Gasp, 2015)

  • Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (NY: Hill and Wang, 2013)

For Younger Kids