The picture painted of the Woodstock music festival shows the dark side of peace and love, and the prevalence of drugs is on almost every page…The best part of the book, however, is the one that transcends eras: Lucas' introspection as he contemplates his place in the world." In this loosely autobiographical novel, Strasser introduces 18-year-old Lucas, who is bright and sensitive but also a screw up….
Todd Strasser is an American author of more than 130 novels for adults, young-adults, and middle graders.īooklist review: "Drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll, those hallmarks of the summer of 1969, are all here, but there's so much more. 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. 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. But Scott's dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst.
In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter?
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