Countdown

By Deborah Wiles

Subjects: Brothers and sisters, fiction, Girls, Fear, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Washington (d.c.), fiction, Juvenile fiction, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Family, fiction, History, Nineteen sixties

Description: Franny is a schoolgirl who has a best friend named Margie. Her uncle has war "nightmares". There is friend betrayal and drama. But even most importantly a crisis.