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Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)

Deborah Wiles

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Jun 21, 2024 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 60-s, relationships, fiction, young-adult

Darn it, Deborah Wiles, you have written the book I have been planning to write for the last almost-fifty years, and you've written it so well and so wonderfully that all I can do is sit back in admiration.

How is it that I haven't run across this book before now? I'm a huge fan of books centering on the sixties. Happily, I see that there are two more books in the series, and I now have them to look forward to.

Countdown is called in the publisher's blurb a "documentary novel." It's a collection ...more

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Aug 22, 2014 Jean-Marie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, young-adult, middle-grade, america, favorites, war, 1960s

I started this series with my firstborn 5 years ago. Now, in anticipation of the release of the final book in the trilogy in a couple of weeks, I'm reading it again with my second child. My original review still holds true. My kids and I love this story set during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and told through the experiences of 11-year-old Franny Chapman, and we think other younger readers will too. Three thumbs up!

Review from August 28, 2014:
Wow! This is a fantastic read. This historical ficti ...more

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