The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction Contributor(s): Brashear, Amy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1616959037 ISBN-13: 9781616959036 Publisher: Soho Teen
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2018 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Performing Arts - Film - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Marriage & Divorce |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2018027722 |
Age Level: 14-UP |
Grade Level: 9-UP |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" L (1.05 lbs) 312 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2018 pg. 109 Publishers Weekly 10/01/2018 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2018 School Library Journal 12/01/2018 pg. 80 Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2018 - Recommended - Better Than Most Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory |
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Publisher Description: Though the story takes place in the '80s, it feels eerily timely.--Bustle Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD--Mutually Assured Destruction--is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that's impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled The Eve of Destruction. When sixteen-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role (with a plus-one ) thanks to a radio call-in contest, she is more relieved than excited. Mingling with Hollywood stars on the set of a phony nuclear war is a perfect distraction from being the only child in her real nuclear family--which has also been annihilated. Her parents are divorced, and her mother has recently remarried. Her father, an officer in the Strategic Air Command, is absent . . . except when he phones at odd hours to hint at an impending catastrophe. But isn't that his job? Laura's only real friend is her new stepbrother, Terrence. She picks him as her plus-one for the film shoot, enraging her fair-weather friends. But their anger is nothing compared to what happens on set after the scripted nuclear explosion. Because nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not. |
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