What is the Countdown by Deborah Wiles about?
When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, the world quietly panics. 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.
Where does Countdown by Deborah Wiles take place?
Washington, D.C.
It is book one of The Sixties Project, three novels of the 1960s for young readers. Countdown takes place in 1962 outside of Washington, D.C. during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The sixth novel is Revolution.
How many pages does the book Countdown have?
400
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780545106061 |
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| Pages: | 400 |
| Sales rank: | 143,055 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.90(d) |
| Age Range: | 9 – 12 Years |
Where does the book Countdown take place?
It’s 1962, and it seems everyone is living in fear. Eleven-year-old Franny Chapman lives with her family in Washington, D.C., and can feel the fear of the nation in the days surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What genre is the book Countdown by Deborah Wiles?
Novel
Historical Fiction
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Who wrote the book Countdown?
Deborah WilesCountdown / Author
What did Deborah Wiles study in college?
She received her MFA in writing from Vermont College in 2003.
What is Countdown bin Laden?
Published on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, Countdown bin Laden is a historical thriller filled with intrigue, cinematic action, and fresh reporting about the race to apprehend and bring to justice the mastermind of the most consequential terrorist attack in American history.
Where did Deborah Wiles grow up?
Mississippi
Two-time National Book Award Finalist Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama into an Air Force family and spent her growing-up summers in a small Mississippi town with an extended family full of Southern characters. Today she writes about them and they live on in her stories.
Is countdown to bin Laden a good book?
“Gripping . . . Countdown 1945 is such a good read, crammed with information, fleshed out with vivid anecdotes, and told in a narrative that never flags.” “Fox News Sunday host Wallace debuts with a propulsive account of the final months of WWII leading up to atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . .
What was Deborah Wiles first book?
Freedom Summer
Short bio: Her first picture book, Freedom Summer, received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. She is also an NAACP Book Award finalist, E.B. White Award winner, Golden Kite Award winner, Jane Addams Peace Award Finalist, and recipient of a PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship.