The Year of the Bomb
by Ronald Kidd
The year is 1955, and there’s nothing that Paul and his best friends, Oz, Arnie,... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2009
Word Count 40,085
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 130574, 5.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Conduct of life--Fiction
- Family problems--Fiction
- Cold War--Fiction
- United States--History--1953-1961--Fiction
- Sierra Madre (Calif.)
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Sierra Madre (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Blacklisting of entertainers--Fiction
- Conduct of life
- Cold War
- 1953-1961
- Blacklisting of entertainers
- Motion pictures
- Family problems
- History
- Fear--Fiction
- Production and direction
- United States
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Fear
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age
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