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Countdown: Written by Deborah Wiles
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What does this book have to do with the 60's?
Countdown: by Deborah Wiles
http://singlesandpairs.blogspot.com/2013/10/Single-Guy-Looking-For-Love.html
Information about Deborah Wiles
Theme
- Fear of atomic blast
- Franny's Dad was an active military officer
- This book does accurately portray the 1960
"Keep the friends you've got"
- Deborah Wiles is a celebrated author from Washington D.C
- She based the main character, Franny, on her own life.
- She also lived on a military base, was in glee club, and was a champion speller.
( She currently lives in Atlanta Georgia.)
- She won the PEN awand in 2004, and was a National Book Award Finalist in 2005.
Summary
Recommendation
- Features comedy, action and drama
- Good for any age.
- A great book
- I would give it 4.5 gypsy scarves.
In would recommend this book for any of my friends or family, because it does a great job of educating me of civilian life in the 1960s.
1. First Franny makes everyone mad.
2. Uncle Otts narrowly escapes death.
3. Parents are gone/ Franny goes to a party.
4. Franny and her friend get in a fight and end up at the gravel pit.
5. Franny saves herself and with only a broken arm.
Life is better.
How did Franny "evolve" throughout Countdown
Franny was a nice and quiet girl, but then she got friends, lost friends. Then decided that she should try and keep the friends she has (the moral of the story).