A review by aria_tsv
Fallout by Todd Strasser

5.0

Another great book! It's set in 1962 during the Cold war. Everyone is afraid of that a nuclear bomb is going to fall and kill them. That, of course, didn't happen, but this book shows what the life of a normal family would have been. I think most people don't realise how hard life must have been back then. Imagine waking up every morning, knowing that this might be your last day to live. Horrible, isn't it? And what if the bomb had really really fallen? How many people would have died?
This book was like a history lesson. And a very useful one. But I wish it was longer. Really, it ends with the people getting out of the bomb shelter and we don't really know what happens to them. Did they survive?