COUNTDOWN
Deborah Wiles
Scholastic Press
2010
Available: Hardcopy, paperback, audio book
The year is 1962 and 12-year-old Franny Chapman lives in suburban Maryland just outside Andrews Air Force Base where her father is stationed in the Air Force. Everything in her world has turned topsy-turvy. President Kennedy announces Russian missiles are in Cuba and aimed at the East Coast. Suddenly it seems that America is on the brink of nuclear war.
