Description
New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Buildand Stealthe Worlds Most Dangerous Weapon, taking readers on a terrifying journey into the Cold War and our mutual assured destruction.
As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance, spy planes fly above, armed submarines swim deep below, and undercover agents meet in the dead of night.
The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed towards each other, with fingers literally on the trigger. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the worlds close call with the thirdand finalworld war.
Winner of the 2022 Kids Book Choice Award for 6th to 8th Grade Book of the Year
A Shelf Awareness Best Childrens Book of 2021
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2021
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year
Praise for BOMB:
A Newbery Honor book
A National Book Awards finalist for Young Peoples Literature
A Washington Post Best Kids Books of the Year title
This is edge-of-the seat material that will resonate with YAs who clamor for true spy stories, and it will undoubtedly engross a cross-market audience of adults who dozed through the World War II unit in high school. BCCB, starred review
reads like an international spy thriller, and thats the beauty of it. School Library Journal, starred review
[A] complicated thriller that intercuts action with the deftness of a Hollywood blockbuster. Booklist, , starred review
A must-read Publishers Weekly, starred review
A superb tale of an era and an effort that forever changed our world. Kirkus
Also by Steve Sheinkin:
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didnt Tell You About Westward Expansion
King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didnt Tell You About the American Revolution
Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didnt Tell You About the Civil War
Born to Fly: The First Womens Air Race Across America
Author: Steve Sheinkin
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.3lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781250149015
Language: English
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