# Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

**Author:** Steve Sheinkin
**Lexile:** 920L
**Grade range:** Grades 6–9
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 2012
**Page count:** 272
**Genre:** Young Adult Nonfiction / History
**ISBN-13:** `9781596434875`
**ISBN-10:** `1596434872`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/bomb
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Steve Sheinkin tells the true, fast-paced story of the building of the atomic bomb — the physics, the Manhattan Project's secrecy, the Soviet espionage, and the sabotage of Nazi efforts — as an international thriller. A Newbery Honor book and National Book Award finalist, it is a frequent grades 6-9 nonfiction selection for science-and-ethics and WWII units.

## Themes

- history
- science and ethics
- war
- ambition
- American history

## Content notes

- war
- nuclear weapons

## Where this book is assigned

### Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2013 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2013 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2013 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2013 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)
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- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2013 Sibert Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Sibert_Informational_Book_Medal)

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