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__** The Gadget **__ __** By: Paul Zindel **__

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be living in a secret military base in 1945 at Los Alamos in New Mexico? Well Stephen a 13 year old boy moves there from London to join his dad while his dad is working on the atomic bomb. This all hapens in The Gadget by: Paul Zindel. The science topic in the book was building the atomic bomb. This is more of a serious note since it is World War 2 and it isn't such a funny book. I have read WW2 books before and know the topic pretty well,but I usually read combat books about WW2 not so much the science of WW2. Stephen is a 13 year old teenager that moves to Los Alamos, New Mexico from London, England and he wasn't so happy about moving because he was leaving the rest of his family behind to go to the USA, he had to leave because London was being bombed and it was very unsafe. Next Stephen's father is one of the scientists that helped make the atom bomb or "the gadget". He was not allowed to tell anyone about what he was doing here because the government wanted to keep it a secret. Finally Tilanov who is one of Stephen's friends that he meets in the Los Alamos, both Tilanov and Stephen make a plan to discover what "the gadget" really is. The main setting in the story is Los Alamos this is where everything happens.It was and still is a military base in New Mexico. I could easily picture the base because of the author's amazing detail about the setting. When I looked at some pictures of the military base on the internet it looked very similar to what I imagined it to look like. The plot of the story is Stephen moving to Los Alamos and living with his father, next trying to figure out about what his dad is doing here, then making a plan to find out what is going on, and finally figurering out what is happing with "the gadget". With the very interestiong storyline and setting with a mindboggling plot this was a great and interestiong book. I recommend this book to who ever likes historical fiction and enjoys WW2.

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