Bomb by Steve Sheinkin Instructional Unit: Newbery Honor Book, Steve Sheinkin's Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

by Rachel E. Kovacs

This instructional unit provides activities and tests for the Newbery Honor Book, The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, by Steve Sheinkin. This book contains standards and objectives, vocabulary exercises, 40 reading comprehension pages, 30 activity pages, a study guide, a multiple choice unit test, and answer keys. This book is best suited for teachers and home school parents of children between the ages of 13 - 18. Curriculum subjects English, World War II, and physics. The novel, The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, is not included.

Genres: History

148 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 2013

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked this book. It was interesting and intense.

[Alex Quealy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read over the summer Bomb by Steve Sheinkin the book is historical fiction novel and I personally thought it was a amazing read for the summer. The main character in the book were scientists for the German government and they discovered that they Could split atoms and how much energy is crated and is destruction it releases. Since splitting atoms was figured out and the Germans realized that it is a huge advantage to war and is a intimidation factor it's now a race to create a working and contained bomb to have and the worlds best Scientists are on the loose to creat the first one. The book was very brilliant with all the steps a scientist has to go threw to create one. I liked the book very much because it was a world race for the first bomb created and is a threat to the whole world if your country can not produce a bomb. A positive part about the book is how interesting it is and how it holds you to the text and wants you to keep going in the book and see who is the top country. The only negative part of the book is that it takes to long In some parts that were just dragged on and could have been finished a lot quicker or said easier. This book would be for people who like historical fiction and science fiction books its a great over all and it's open to anyone who is interested in war and the world leaders. The book meet my expectations it was one of my favorite books to every read again at anytime. I thought it was a very dark book after they figured out they could split atoms. It got dark and twisted on how they are competing with the whole world. This book should be for kids that are over 10 years old so they could fully understand the words and context and see what's is going on.

[Ashley Brocious · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the story of the race to make the atomic bomb during World War II. America was terrified that the Germans would be the first the build the bomb and would be able to use it to win the war and create their German Empire. So the American government found the top physicists and created Los Alamos, a secret community of scientists all working on the bomb. They were successful in building the in 1945 and it was used shortly after on Japan to get them to agree to an unconditional surrender.

By the end I was horrified by the nonchalant way human beings were discussed in this text. It did not grapple with the grief or the horror of what this bomb did and the destruction these men created. It was so focused on the excitement of scientific advantages that it forgot the people along the way who created this horror and had to deal with that knowledge. It didn't deal with the destruction of so many Japanese lives. I remembered again why I think fiction matters as I got more and more disgusted with this book. It's because this kind of writing isn't good enough. It's not enough to give a scientific, plot-driven account of history. It missed the grief of this event and because of that it missed the story.

[Trinity Y. · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book, Bomb, written by Steve Sheinkin, included great detail and a lot of explanation of how the atomic bomb was written. It was given to me by one of the administrator’s at our school, Singapore American School, and really helped us to understand how the bomb contributed a lot to the cold war and more background on the relationship between the Soviet Union and America.