Countdown, by Deborah Wiles (2010)

I listened to the audio version of this book and I loved it!  Twelve-year old Franny Chapman lives in Washington, DC in 1962.  John Kennedy is the president, kids prepare for the atomic bomb, and the Cuban Missile Crisis accelerates.  The audio version has clips of various speeches from JFK, Nikita Kruschev and other historical figures.

Franny lives her life with the "duck and cover" philosophy until things fall so far apart that she finally  finds courage to stand up.

Rating:  8 out of 10 stars
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