novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb which

supposedly was sent from Russia by accident. L.A. and surrounding

cities are all altered by the disastrous happening. Philip Singer a

teenager is in a position as leader of the family. His brother Matt is

awfully sick, possibly from radiation, his father was away at work

during the blast and for all Philip knows he might be dead, and his

mother was desperately injured and needs immediate attention.

Hospitals are flooded with injured and dying people and the government

doesn't send help for a few days. The badly injured don't even get the

chance to be helped because the hospitals have to send the ones that

are likely going to live to hospitals that specialize in burns. His

mother is so badly burned that the hospitals put her on the bottom of

the list to be flown to burn centers. By the end of the novel Philip

has taken charge, snuck his mom ahead to be flown to a burn center,

and in a sense saved his town from thirst. He truly survived the

terror, shock, and danger of the bomb.

The novel goes through a couple of settings such as,

so and she is flown out early and he most probably saved her life by

struggle for survival, and the devastating blow against L.A. was only

the leadership of a teenager over his family. The novel displays

manage to get water to the hospital. He did so and after a while

He went up to the surface to check out his neighbor's house which was

drained water from a resident's pool and had it flown down to the

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Approximate Word count = 815
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)