Author : Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554980348
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)
Book Synopsis Rex Zero and the End of the World by : Tim Wynne-Jones
Download or read book Rex Zero and the End of the World written by Tim Wynne-Jones and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1962, and to twelve-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place. On TV there are reports about the Russians and a nuclear war. Some people in his new neighborhood are even building bomb shelters in their backyards. Rex learns that there's trouble closer to home as well. A black panther has escaped from a zoo and he and his friends are sure they have spotted the creature in their local park -- and it is Rex who comes up with a plan to trap it. In this smart, vivid and touching novel, Tim Wynne-Jones explores the time and place of his own childhood when a kid could spend an entire summer below the radar of adults. But it was also a time of great uncertainty and menace, when memories of an old war were still fresh, and fears of a new one were looming.