Wiles, Deborah.

Countdown / Deborah Wiles. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic Press, 2010. - 377 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Sixties trilogy ; bk. 1 . - Wiles, Deborah. Sixties trilogy ; bk. 1. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Kirkus Starred, April 2010

As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. Features historic quotations and photographs.

6.4 Follett Library Resources 5-8 Follett Library Resources

9780545106054 (trade) 0545106052


Nineteen sixties--Juvenile fiction.
History, Modern--1945-1989--Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
History, Modern--1945-1989--Fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
World history--1945---Fiction.

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