Countdown
by:
Deborah Wiles (author)
Four starred reviews greeted this new, groundbreaking classic from Deborah Wiles!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...
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Four starred reviews greeted this new, groundbreaking classic from Deborah Wiles!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 with how to deal with what's going on with her family and friends. But somehow she's got to make it.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780545106061 (0545106060)
ASIN: 545106060
Publish date: April 30th 2013
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
I really enjoyed learning more about this time period, and the realistic impact it had on children directly affected by actions taken on the international stage. My son zoned out a bit during the history lesson/context building portions, so I think it would take the right kid to fully be invested i...
Countdown takes place in 1962 and is the story of 11-year-old Franny Chapman. Franny is a middle child living near Andrews Air Force base, and she often feels overlooked. She loves to read aloud, but her teacher never seems to pick her to read for the class. She’s fighting with her friend Margie, he...
6/29/11 ** Book-a-day Challenge Day 32, Book 38 ** Deborah Wiles has delivered a fascinating book that will be difficult to categorize. The characters are haunting me; I want to read more about the sister's summer trip to Mississippi, but the next book in this planned set of three companion volumes ...
When I was in school, my Social Studies classes usually ended right around the end of the Civil War, with some information about World War I and II if we had time at the end of the year, and the 1950s onward covered only briefly. I didn't grow up knowing very much about the Cuban Missile Crisis or e...
It's embarrassing how little I know about the 1960s. It seems like we always ran out of time in the school year and we never got to it. Ask me about the colonies though!I loved the details of 1962 in Countdown, and especially the fear surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis and how a girl would respond...
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