Countdown
Title
:
Countdown
Personal Author EPSB
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Deborah. Wiles
Summary
:
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear."--Dust jacket flap.
Year Published
:
2010
Series
:
The sixties trilogy ;
Volume
:
bk. 1
Physical Description
:
377 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Awards
:
Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth, 2010.
Subject
:
Girls -- Fiction.
Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Electronic Access
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Summary
:
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear."--Dust jacket flap.
ISBN
:
9780545106054
9780545106061
Publisher
:
New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2010.
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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D.S. MacKenzie | FIC WIL | Book | 30522000363108 | Historical Fiction |