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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Trophy Pr
Publication date August 1, 1997
Pages 176
Binding Paperback
Book category Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13 9780380727230
ISBN-10 0380727234
Dimensions 0.50 by 4.25 by 7 in.
Weight 0.20 lbs.
Original list price $5.99
Other format details juvenile
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Refusing to believe the U.S. government's claims that nuclear tests on his people's island will have minor effects, a sixteen-year-old Bikini Island native decides to risk his life to prevent the bombing. Reprint. PW. AB. K. SLJ.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Shortly after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, World War II came to and, and the terrible reality of the atomic age began . . .

Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu has lived on the Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific all his life. Now the United States government wants to use his home as a site for atomic weapons tests. The islanders are told that they must leave weapon tests. The islanders are told that they must leave the island in the interest of world peace but can return when the island in the interest of world peace but can return when the land is safe again. Sorry doesnt believe the story. He is sure that radioactive fallout will poison the warm blue waters and beautiful white sand beaches, and Bikini Atoll will be lost to its people forever. Sorry knows that he has no choice but stop this disaster before it starts -- even if it means standing alone against the U.S. military, and risking his own life to save his ancestral land.



Editions
Paperback
Book cover for 9780152061654 Book cover for 9780380727230
 
Reissue edition from Houghton Mifflin (August 1, 2007)
9780152061654 | details & prices | 200 pages | 4.25 × 6.75 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.35 lbs | List price $6.95
About: In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Trophy Pr (August 1, 1997)
9780380727230 | details & prices | 176 pages | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.20 lbs | List price $5.99
About: In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat
School and Library
Book cover for 9780152008673
 
from Harcourt Childrens Books (October 1, 1995)
9780152008673 | details & prices | 197 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.85 lbs | List price $15.00
About: In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat
Reinforced
Book cover for 9780606111461
 
from Demco Media (August 1, 1997)
9780606111461 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.35 lbs | List price $14.53
About: In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat
Prebinding
Book cover for 9780613034470 Book cover for 9781435249417
 
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (April 18, 2008)
9781435249417 | details & prices | 200 pages | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.40 lbs | List price $15.95
This edition also contains Bomb
About: It is 1946, a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and World War II is over.
from Turtleback Books (October 1, 1999)
9780613034470 | details & prices | 3.25 × 10.25 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.35 lbs | List price $14.55
About: In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat

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