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Product Details
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, June 2009
Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN-10: 1416958924
ISBN-13: 9781416958925
Grades: 7 and up
Awards and Nominations
- Bank Street Best Books of the Year
Description
The year is 1955, and there's nothing that Paul and his best friends, Oz, Arnie, and Crank, love more than horror movies. So when Invasion of the Body Snatchers starts filming in their small California town, they couldn't be more excited. But when their acquaintance with Laura and Darryl, extras on the movie, leads to an involvement in a possible Communist conspiracy, Paul is afraid that they're in too deep. It's not a horror movie anymore—this is real life. From acclaimed storyteller Ronald Kidd comes this coming-of-age tale about taking a stand, following the crowd, and navigating the gray areas in between.
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Browse Inside The Year of the BombHow did you come to write this book?
In 1955 the classic horror film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” was shot in the little town of Sierra Madre, California. Living nearby was Richard Feynman, who helped invent the atomic bomb. These two facts, seemingly unrelated, fired my imagination, and I began to wonder what it would have been like to live there. Out of that thought came Oz, Arne, Crank, and Paul--joking, spying, shaking in their shoes, and scared to death of pod people.
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