Pair this one with Deborah Wiles', Countdown (2010, Scholastic) or Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon(Flashpoint, 2012).
Are you really comfortable putting yourself in his hands? Letting him decide how much we eat and drink?Īn Author's Note, complete with photograph of his own family's underground bunker, follows the story.įor mature readers ages 10 and up. "Who gave him the right to make decisions for all of us? Because it's his bomb shelter? I'm sorry, but I don't think that matters anymore. McGovern counters, then turns to the Shaws. "It won't just be your dead body - it will be everyone's," Mr. Powerful and affecting, the baseness of the human species is uncomfortably unveiled in Fallout.ĭad gathers himself up. Who deserves to eat and drink, to use the sparse toilet paper, to wash, to live - to die? Disability, race, personal property rights all are examined in this gritty novel.
As the situation grows increasingly desperate, the bunker's inhabitants, once friends and neighbors, live only for the present. Set in the tense, crowded, and contentious atmosphere of the over-filled bunker, the story is revealed in flashbacks of neighborhood and school events leading up to the attack. Porter, Scott, and his younger brother, Sparky, is now the only possible option for survival. The Soviet Union attacks the United States with a nuclear bomb, and the Porter's bomb shelter, designed to accommodate Mr. Neighbors ridicule the family as Scott's dad builds and stocks his underground bunker.Īnd then, in a twist of revisionist history, it happens. Porter is busily preparing for the nuclear war that he feels is sure to happen. While many of his suburban neighbors have fatalist or devil-may-care attitudes, Mr.
In many ways, Scott Porter, a soon-to-be sixth grader, is a carefree boy of the 1960's, palling around with his friends - Ronnie, Freak O' Nature, and Why Can't You Be Like Johnny? But the summer of 1962, is not carefree to most of the world.
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