The Gadget

by Paul Zindel

Book Overview

An Army ambulance sped by. No siren, only a dome on its roof flashing red. It halted in front of the high-security Tech Area, where several men wearing silver coveralls and carrying glistening... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440229510
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.5" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

The Gadget

This book is about a boy sent to an army with his dad, but his dad is already there. Sthepen (boy) os only sent there to keep his dad company. But wierd things start happening to Stephen while he is there. You'll just have to read thebook to find out the wierd stuff. This book has alot of action in it and a great WW II.

This Book

This book had a cornacopia amount of action. This was a supercalafragalisticexpealadocious book( that means that it was a great book.). It had a lot of problems that people my age go through. This book is worth the time of reading it.

What I thought of The Gadget

I thought this book was a great historical fiction book to be read in all good schools. It taught me about Hitler and his army. There were spies that couldn't be trusted that lived right down the street pretending to be Stephen's friends. It was an exciting book because Stephen always wanted to know what his father was doing when he kept leaving in the morning with big trucks. When he finally found out the secret, he and his friends went to the site where the bomb was going to be launched and were nearly killed...

the best book

The Gaget is a very exiting book to read . Its very susspenful . I cant put the book down i just have to keap reading and reading . The book is about a boy from europe that goes to a military base during world war two . He tries to seek the secrets that his dad is hiding from him . he has a friend that is gouing to help him . His name is alexis . they are boath gouing to find the secret that stephen dad is hiding . I recomend this book to enyone ho likes world war two history

An exciting recreation of the events at Los Alamos in 1945.

After living in London for most of World War II, Stephen is finally able to join his father, an American scientist, at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in February of 1945. At first Stephen is able to simply accept the secrecy of the work going on - but after an accident, he begins to question the veil of secrecy, for things are strange at Los Alamos. An unusually warm stream nearby is filled with two-headed toads. When he questions the victim of the accident, he is told of the mysterious "gadget" - a weapon that could cause the very sky to burn. This knowledge only makes Stephen more determined to find out what is going on. This determination could cost Stephen his life. Because the weapon that is being developed at Los Alamos will change the world forever. And there are people who would kill to find out what it is. This was a faced-past, suspenseful novel that recreated the events at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1945, as the age of nuclear weapons began.