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The Bomb
by Taylor, Theodore (signed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Blue cloth spine/orange boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (15.00)
- ISBN 10
- 0152008675
- ISBN 13
- 9780152008673
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1995. Fine condition in Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No remainder marks. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Fresh and crisp. Historical fiction for young adult readers. A 16-year-old boy, living on the Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) in the western Pacific Ocean, fears danger from radioactive nuclear fall-out, and so resists U.S. government efforts to use his home as a site for atomic weapons testing. Summary: "In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that in two years he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat." . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth spine/orange boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (15.00). Illus. by Kaczor, Gwenda (jacket art). 8vo. (x), 197pp..
Synopsis
It is 1946, a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and World War II is over. But the U.S. government has decided that further tests of atomic bombs must be conducted. Bikini Atoll is chosen for the testing site, so the people who have lived there for generations must be relocated for two years. Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu believes the Americans are lying and that it will never be safe for his people to return. He must find a way to stop the first bomb before it is dropped . . . even if that means risking his own destruction. This chilling novel is based on the true story of atomic weapons testing at Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific Ocean. “A haunting, soundly researched work.”-- Publishers Weekly
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002069
- Title
- The Bomb
- Author
- Taylor, Theodore (signed)
- Illustrator
- Kaczor, Gwenda (jacket art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Blue cloth spine/orange boards
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Not Price Clipped (15.00)
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0152008675
- ISBN 13
- 9780152008673
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books / Young Adult Literature;
- Size
- 8vo. (x), 197pp.
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