Rex Zero and the End of the World
Written by Tim Wynne-Jones
Series Title: Rex Zero
- 200 Pages
- 9781554980345
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Reading age
from
9
to
12
- JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure
- JUVENILE FICTION / Boys & Men
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
- JUVENILE FICTION
$6.97 $9.95
Publication Date September 01, 2006
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.
Short-listed for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award 2007
Contributors
Tim Wynne-Jones
Tim Wynne-Jones is one of Canada's foremost writers for children. The author of over thirty books, he is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award, as well as a two-time winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and of the Arthur Ellis Award. He is the recipient of many other prizes at home and internationally including the Edgar Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work. In 2012 he was made an Officer to the Order of Canada. He lives in Perth, Ontario.
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