Annal:1996 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
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Results of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
- 1996 Scott O'Dell winner
- Score: 10.46
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. When Bikini Atoll is chosen for the testing site, the inhabitants of the tiny island are told they must relocate for just two years. But sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu believes the Americans are lying and that it will never be safe to return. He must find a way to stop the first bomb before it is dropped . . . even if it means risking his own destruction.
