It is 1946, a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and World War II is over. But the U.S. government says further tests of atomic bombs are necessary to study their deadly power. World peace depends on it. So a test site is chosen: Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific Ocean. No matter that the atoll has been inhabited for generations; the people will simply be relocated. 

Most of the islanders trust the U.S. military representatives who come and ask them to move away for two years. But sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu believes the Americans are lying. From what he has learned about radioactive fallout, it will never be safe for his people to return to their atoll. The warm blue waters and white sand beaches will be poisoned, and their ancestral land will be lost to them forever. 

Sorry has no choice. He must do whatever it takes to stop the first bomb from being dropped. Even if it means defying the orders of the U.S. military—and risking his own destruction.

From the dust jacket