When I started at the Horn Book at the beginning of our current century, I apprenticed myself to a man who was in no rush to let go of the previous one. Born in 1917, a printer who was the son of a printer and the father of another, Thomas...

Countdown [The Sixties Trilogy]by Deborah WilesIntermediate     Scholastic     394 pp.5/10     978-0-545-10605-4     $17.99     gEven the weakest history student knows that the world didn’t end during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, yet it can be hard to shrug off the old-time geopolitical jitters in this first-rate novel — especially when its eye-grabbing...