Yuriko, de doce años, tiene una vida privilegiada. Vive en Hiroshima con su padre, su tía y su prima, tiene una mejor amiga que es como una hermana y disfruta de la escuela. Cuando Yuriko descubre información sobre su pasado, y poco después de que la bomba atómica caiga sobre su ciudad, todo su mundo parece llegar a su fin.
Haga que los estudiantes creen un resumen inicial, intermedio y final de The Last Cherry Blossom de Kathleen Burkinshaw.
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BEGINNING
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That's not right. That's not right.
MIDDLE
Nishimoto is your father.
No! No! You're lying! That's not true!
END
Yuirko’s teacher reacts strangely to her family tree project and says, “that’s not right.” When her papa finds out, Yuriko’s teacher doesn’t return and Yuriko wonders why.
Yuriko discovers that Papa is actually her grandfather, and her Aunt Kimiko is actually her mother. Yuriko is hurt that this secret was kept from her, and wonders why no one told her the truth.
The atomic bomb is dropped on the city of Hiroshima, and Yuriko loses her family and best friend, in one way or another, as a direct result of the attack. She attends a boarding school, makes new friends, and meets up with her birth father.