Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
Record details
- ISBN: 9781596438613 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1596438614 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, c2012
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Book design by Jay Colvin"--title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-259) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Three-way race -- Chain reactions -- How to build an atomic bomb -- Final assembly. |
Awards Note: | Newbery Honor Book, 2013 Sibert Medal, 2013 YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner, 2013 National Book Award Finalist, 2013 |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Genre: | Newbery Medal: Honor book > 2012. War and conflict Electronic books. |
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Steve Sheinkin is the award-winning author of fast-paced, cinematic nonfiction histories for young readers. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, was a National Book Award finalist and received the 2014 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, won both the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and the YALSA award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most Dangerous Weapon was a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award Finalist, and winner of the Sibert Award and YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and teh Secret History of the Vietnam War was a National Book Award finalist and a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award finalist. Sheinkin lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife and two children.