Internationally best-selling author Todd Strasser has written his most impressive and personal novel to date, ruthlessly yet sensitively exploring the terrifying what-ifs of one of the most explosive moments in human history.
But even worse is the question of what will - and won’t - remain when the door is opened again. With not enough room, not enough food, and not enough air, life inside the shelter is filthy, physically draining, and emotionally fraught. In the middle of the night in late October, when the unthinkable happens, those same neighbors force their way into the shelter before Scott’s dad can shut the door. Eleven-year-old Scott’s family becomes the laughingstock of their neighborhood when, worried about possible nuclear attack, they build a bomb shelter. As the neighbors scoff, he builds a bomb shelter to hold his family and stocks it with just enough supplies to keep the four of them alive for two critical weeks. Strasser once again combines terrific suspense with thoughtful depth when the bombs really do fall in this alternate-history Cuban missile crisis thriller.
But Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst. There’s a struggle when desperate neighbors try to push their way in. The story opens before dawn with Scott’s family climbing down into their bomb shelter. But in Todd Strasser’s Fallout (Candlewick 2013) the attack takes place. In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. Fallout by Todd Strasser (Candlewick 2013) The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was avertedjust barely. What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter? Sparky is the stereotypical annoying younger brother, always picking on Scott, being nosy, and. Fallout by Todd Strasser - Discussion Guide
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