Name: Fallout
ISBN: 9780763655341

Todd Strasser

When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside. By the best-selling author of The Wave.

Fallout

Melissa Palmer

Book #116 Read in 2014
Fallout by Todd Strasser (YA)

This book takes the premise of a nuclear bomb being dropped in 1962; only Scott's family has built a bomb shelter. What happens when neighbors want to stay in it too? Will Scott's father, who took the threat seriously enough to build the shelter, have stocked in adequately in preparation? What happens when a group of adults and children are stuck in a bomb shelter for a few weeks in close quarters? This book reminded me a bit of Lord of the Flies set in a bomb shelter. It was a good, quick read. I think this book is more geared towards boys.

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Jeannette Ordas

I liked this book but I wasn't smitten. For the first third of the book, I thought it took place in England - why? I have no idea, but maybe it was something about the language. Or I was just really tired. I liked the structure - one chapter in the now, the next in the recent past, but I felt like some of the chapters were a bit too "explained" in its follow-through. Decent.