A quick read with a straightforward style that lets the horror of the events speak for ?áthemselves. ?áWe learn about Sorry's culture, come to care for his family and community, and then find out that, in some ways, what the Americans do in the name of peace is even worse than what the Japanese did in war. ?áRecommended especially for those students who are assigned WWII but don't want to do Holocaust, and for anyone else who wants to know more about the history of nuclear weapons before the Cold War and before the Strategic Defense Initiative.

I don't know why the other books by the author of The Cay are not more well-known. ( )

This is the story of Bikini Island, a nuclear test site during World War II, told from the point of view of Sorry, a sixteen-year-old islander.

This book for young adults won the Scott O-Dell Award for historical fiction. It focuses on atomic bomb testing on the Bikini Atoll. ( )

Sorry just does whatever. thats how he dies because he was stupid