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📖 Bomb—The race to build –and steal– the world's most dangerous weapon

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👤 Author
Steve Sheinkin
📚 Genre
Fiction
🎯 Interest Level
UG
📊 ATOS Book Level
6.9
🔢 Quiz No.
153499
📝 Word Count
68,000
🔗 Series
🏷️ Topic
Award Winners-YALSA Award for Excellence in NF for You; Award Winners-VOYA: The Perfect Tens; Award Winners-SLJ Best Book; Award Winners-Margaret A. Edwards Award; Award Winners-Robert F. Sibert Informational Award/Hon; Award Winners-Jefferson Cup Award/Honor; Award Winners-Newbery Honor; History-World War II Era; Recommended Reading-NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science; Recommended Reading-Junior Library Guild-2012 Fall Jr./Sr. High; Recommended Reading-Canadian Children's Book Centre; Recommended Reading-Junior Library Guild Selection; Recommended Reading-California Recommended Lit., English, 9-12; Science-Chemistry; Science-Physics; Spy/Espionage-Spy/Espionage (All); Technology-Weaponry;

🌟 Recommendation Details

"Bomb: The race to build –and steal– the world's most dangerous weapon" by Steve Sheinkin Is a spectacularly written book about the construction of the atom bomb by the United States, the efforts of the USSR to steal it, the sabotage of the German effort, and the aftermath of the bomb. Sheinkin brilliantly brings the elements of the book together to create a gripping narrative akin to a thriller.

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