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The year of the bomb / Ronald Kidd. |
| Authors: | Kidd, Ronald. |
| Call number: | jFIC KID |
| Publisher: | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2009. |
| Publication date: | c2009. |
| Subject: |
Fear -- Fiction.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Fiction. Conduct of life -- Fiction. Blacklisting of entertainers -- Fiction. Cold War -- Fiction. Dysfunctional families -- Fiction. Juvenile literature. Sierra Madre (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. United States -- History -- 1953-1961 -- Fiction. |
| Title: | The year of the bomb / Ronald Kidd. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | 202 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Target audience note: | Ages 12 up. |
| Notes: | "Conspiracies and pod people are only in the movies ... right?" -- Cover. |
| Summary note: | In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the body snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a nearby university or on the movie set. |
| Awards note: | A Junior Library Guild selection Young Hoosier Book Award, 2011-2012, 6-8 Nominee. |
| ISBN: | 9781416958925 (hardcover) 1416958924 (hardcover) |
| LCCN: | 2008023646 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1212183 |
| Bib No.: | 1212183 |