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Condition: Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ... Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. The binding may be slightly damaged but integrity is still intact. Possible writing in margins, possible underlining and highlighting of text, but no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

Release Year: 2021

ISBN: 9781250149015

Book Title: Fallout : Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Item Length: 9.3 in

Publication Year: 2021

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Illustrator: Yes

Item Height: 1.2 in

Author: Steve Sheinkin

Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, History

Topic: History / Military & Wars, United States / General

Item Weight: 21.2 Oz

Item Width: 6.4 in

Number of Pages: 352 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher

Roaring Brook Press

ISBN-10

1250149010

ISBN-13

9781250149015

eBay Product ID (ePID)

23050104194

Product Key Features

Book Title

Fallout : Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown

Number of Pages

352 Pages

Language

English

Topic

History / Military & Wars, United States / General

Publication Year

2021

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Juvenile Nonfiction, History

Author

Steve Sheinkin

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height

1.2 in

Item Weight

21.2 Oz

Item Length

9.3 in

Item Width

6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience

Juvenile Audience

LCCN

2021-019729

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Reviews

"In this gripping account, Newbery Honor Book author and Sibert medalist Sheinkin offers an intense narrative that captures the terrifying tensions of the Cold War." -- Booklist , starred review "Sheinkin reprises his role as masterful, ever-so-wry storyteller, winking his audience into complicity in his critique of boneheaded brinksmanship..." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books , starred review "In tightly organized chapters adorned with historical photos, Sheinkin seamlessly weaves the stories of different players and includes meticulously well-researched details to personalize and humanize his subjects... A first purchase for all teen collections." -- School Library Journal , starred review "Throughout, the highly charged narrative maintains a strong perspective and keen attention to detail, rounding out the figures involved--such as the American pilot Gary Powers, who flew U-2 jets to spy on Russia--with character and personality." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Steve Sheinkin recounts the "most intense years of the Cold War" with a cinematic writing style that is keenly detailed... Look no further for informative and entertaining nonfiction." -- Shelf Awareness , starred review "An account of a gripping real-life adventure that isn't over yet." -- Kirkus Reviews, "In this gripping account, Newbery Honor Book author and Sibert medalist Sheinkin offers an intense narrative that captures the terrifying tensions of the Cold War." -- Booklist , starred review "Sheinkin reprises his role as masterful, ever-so-wry storyteller, winking his audience into complicity in his critique of boneheaded brinksmanship..." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books , starred review " An account of a gripping real-life adventure that isn't over yet." -- Kirkus Reviews, "In this gripping account, Newbery Honor Book author and Sibert medalist Sheinkin offers an intense narrative that captures the terrifying tensions of the Cold War." -- Booklist , starred review "Sheinkin reprises his role as masterful, ever-so-wry storyteller, winking his audience into complicity in his critique of boneheaded brinksmanship..." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books , starred review "In tightly organized chapters adorned with historical photos, Sheinkin seamlessly weaves the stories of different players and includes meticulously well-researched details to personalize and humanize his subjects... A first purchase for all teen collections." -- School Library Journal , starred review "Throughout, the highly charged narrative maintains a strong perspective and keen attention to detail, rounding out the figures involved--such as the American pilot Gary Powers, who flew U-2 jets to spy on Russia--with character and personality." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Steve Sheinkin recounts the "most intense years of the Cold War" with a cinematic writing style that is keenly detailed... Look no further for informative and entertaining nonfiction." -- Shelf Awareness , starred review "Steve Sheinkin's new nonfiction thriller about the Cold War is like one of its key emblems, the U-2 spy plane: fast, lean and able to survey a huge amount of territory." -- The New York Times "An account of a gripping real-life adventure that isn't over yet." -- Kirkus Reviews, "In this gripping account, Newbery Honor Book author and Sibert medalist Sheinkin offers an intense narrative that captures the terrifying tensions of the Cold War." -- Booklist , starred review "Sheinkin reprises his role as masterful, ever-so-wry storyteller, winking his audience into complicity in his critique of boneheaded brinksmanship..." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books , starred review "In tightly organized chapters adorned with historical photos, Sheinkin seamlessly weaves the stories of different players and includes meticulously well-researched details to personalize and humanize his subjects... A first purchase for all teen collections." -- School Library Journal , starred review " An account of a gripping real-life adventure that isn't over yet." -- Kirkus Reviews, "In this gripping account, Newbery Honor Book author and Sibert medalist Sheinkin offers an intense narrative that captures the terrifying tensions of the Cold War." -- Booklist , starred review " An account of a gripping real-life adventure that isn't over yet." -- Kirkus Reviews, "In this gripping account, Newbery Honor Book author and Sibert medalist Sheinkin offers an intense narrative that captures the terrifying tensions of the Cold War." -- Booklist , starred review "Sheinkin reprises his role as masterful, ever-so-wry storyteller, winking his audience into complicity in his critique of boneheaded brinksmanship..." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books , starred review "In tightly organized chapters adorned with historical photos, Sheinkin seamlessly weaves the stories of different players and includes meticulously well-researched details to personalize and humanize his subjects... A first purchase for all teen collections." -- School Library Journal , starred review "Throughout, the highly charged narrative maintains a strong perspective and keen attention to detail, rounding out the figures involved--such as the American pilot Gary Powers, who flew U-2 jets to spy on Russia--with character and personality." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review " An account of a gripping real-life adventure that isn't over yet." -- Kirkus Reviews, "In this gripping account, Newbery Honor Book author and Sibert medalist Sheinkin offers an intense narrative that captures the terrifying tensions of the Cold War." -- Booklist , starred review "Sheinkin reprises his role as masterful, ever-so-wry storyteller, winking his audience into complicity in his critique of boneheaded brinksmanship..." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books , starred review "In tightly organized chapters adorned with historical photos, Sheinkin seamlessly weaves the stories of different players and includes meticulously well-researched details to personalize and humanize his subjects... A first purchase for all teen collections." -- School Library Journal , starred review "Throughout, the highly charged narrative maintains a strong perspective and keen attention to detail, rounding out the figures involved--such as the American pilot Gary Powers, who flew U-2 jets to spy on Russia--with character and personality." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Steve Sheinkin recounts the "most intense years of the Cold War" with a cinematic writing style that is keenly detailed... Look no further for informative and entertaining nonfiction." -- Shelf Awareness , starred review "Sheinkin crafts an epic narrative with a large cast of characters, far-flung settings, multiple plot strands, and rising suspense, further evidence that one of our best nonfiction writers is also one of our best storytellers." -- Book Horn Magazine , starred review "Steve Sheinkin's new nonfiction thriller about the Cold War is like one of its key emblems, the U-2 spy plane: fast, lean and able to survey a huge amount of territory." -- The New York Times "An account of a gripping real-life adventure that isn't over yet." -- Kirkus Reviews

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Dewey Decimal

909.825

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's 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 world's close call with the third--and final--world war.Praise for BOMB:A Newbery Honor book A National Book Awards finalist for Young People's LiteratureA 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 that's the beauty of it." --School Library Journal, starred review"[A] complicated thriller that intercuts action with the deftness of a Hollywood blockbuster." --Booklist"A must-read..." --Publishers Weekly, starred review"A superb tale of an era and an effort that forever changed our world." --Kirkus, starred reviewAlso by Steve Sheinkin:The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & TreacheryThe Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil RightsUndefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football TeamMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam WarWhich Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward ExpansionKing George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American RevolutionTwo Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil WarBorn to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America, From the author of the Newbery Honor-winning and New York Times-bestselling Bomb comes an equally riveting, heart-pounding story about the years after the first atomic bomb was built, when the world's fate hung in the balance between the United States and the Soviet Union-the dangerous standoff known as the Cold War. Book jacket., New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build -- and Steal--the World's 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 world's close call with the third--and final--world war. Winner of the 2022 Kids' Book Choice Award for 6th to 8th Grade Book of the Year A Shelf Awareness Best Children's 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 People's 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 that's 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 Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America

LC Classification Number

E841.S54 2021

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