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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2013
The Cuban Missile Crisis has received some excellent treatment in children’s literature in recent years—The Fire-Eaters (rev. 5/04) by David Almond; Rex Zero and the End of the World (rev. 3/07) by Tim Wynne-Jones; Countdown (rev. 5/10) by Deborah Wiles—but Strasser manages to put his own unique spin on the situation by imagining what might have happened if nuclear war had broken out. Scott’s father is one of the few ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Intermediate Fiction
Strasser imagines what might have happened if nuclear war <i>had</i> broken out during the Cuban Missile Crisis. When the air ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
