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Original Title:	Countdown
ISBN:	0545106052 (ISBN13: 9780545106054)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sixties Trilogy #1
Literary Awards:	SIBA Book Award (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee (2010), The Magnolia Award for 6-8 (2013), Alabama Author Award for Juvenile (2012), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2013)

Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy #1)

Deborah Wiles

Hardcover | Pages: 394 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 9902 Users | 1484 Reviews

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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 that the whole country is living in fear. When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, it only gets worse. Franny doesn't know how to deal with what's going on in the world -- no more than she knows how to deal with what's going on with her family and friends. But somehow she's got to make it through.

Featuring a captivating story interspersed with footage from 1962, award-winning author Deborah Wiles has created a documentary novel that will put you right alongside Franny as she navigates a dangerous time in both her history and our history.

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Title	:	Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Deborah Wiles
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 394 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2010 by Scholastic Press
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Audiobook

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Ratings: 3.9 From 9902 Users | 1484 Reviews

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A darling story that sucks you right in from the first scene. This is the first historical fiction I've read about this time period (Cuban Missile Crisis). The unique format, part scrapbook from 1962 and part narrative, lends itself to great conversations between tweens RIGHT NOW and their grandparents. I showed the 70-year-old in my life the pictures, song lyrics, and cultural references I didn't understand, and he smiled and explained things to me. Kids, please do this! Look up the songs that

This is going to be my annual "I don't get it" book, I guess. I'm puzzled by the almost-universal accolades. (Review will be especially long because of Newbery talk.)The writing itself is good enough, though marred in my opinion by overuse of similes--some of which didn't make much sense. "By the time Saturday rolls around, we're used to living like emergency room patients." I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. "I answer as if the pope himself called me and told me I could go." ???

Who as a child of the sixties remembers siren tests every Saturday at noon, and duck and cover drills in preparation for possible nuclear attack? I certainly do! Today, I still shudder at the memory. The onslaught of doomsday prepping and headline news, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Communism and race riots scared the bejezus out of young impressionable children.We hope it never comes . . . a bright flash, brighter than the sun, brighter than anything youve ever seen. It could knock you down

3.5 stars. It took me awhile to get into this book, particularly because of the fact that the book switches from the story to pages that contained quotes from the time period, flyers, newspaper pages... Even though at first this was confusing and something I was not accustomed to, now it is one of the main reasons that I enjoyed the book. It was an excellent way of depicting what time period it was, as well as it helped to foreshadow what was or wasn't going to happen later on in the story. I

Reading this book was like taking a trip through time. The year in which the events took place was my last year in high school, so the songs, the photos, and the quotes were all familiar to me. Wiles does a great job of constructing the story of Franny, a fifth-grader, caught up in the country's craziness during the Cuban missile crisis. Interspersed among the chapters of Franny's story are visual reminders of the time. I'm not sure whether to expect young adults would like this or not. If they



Unbelievable book! Maybe be one of my favorite books of all time. I have always love Deborah Wiles but I think this puts her up there with Sharon Creech, Anna Quindlen, Barbara Kingsolver. Really an amazing book. Brilliantly done and some of my favorite characters ever.