I just couldn’t resist the fun design combined with the awesome typography! After reading it, I can’t say it is one of my all-time favorites, but the story was solid, and I can definitely see it appealing to many other readers. My Thoughts: The true reason I put this book on hold at the library is the cover. Internationally best-selling author Todd Strasser has written his most impressive and personal novel to date, ruthlessly yet sensitively exploring the terrifying what-ifs of one of the most explosive moments in human history. But even worse is the question of what will - and won’t - remain when the door is opened again. With not enough room, not enough food, and not enough air, life inside the shelter is filthy, physically draining, and emotionally fraught. In the middle of the night in late October, when the unthinkable happens, those same neighbors force their way into the shelter before Scott’s dad can shut the door. As the neighbors scoff, he builds a bomb shelter to hold his family and stocks it with just enough supplies to keep the four of them alive for two critical weeks. But Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst. Summary: What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter? In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about.
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