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245 pp.
| Feiwel |
May, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-312-37015-2$16.95
(2)
YA
When Eli was nine, his billionaire father led his family into an underground bunker built to protect them against nuclear war. Now fifteen, Eli begins questioning: is the outside world really gone? Bodeen's action-packed writing conveys the Compound environment and its subtly debilitative effects. This tense portrait of a family in crisis probes the psychological and moral costs of survival.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2008