Escape one danger. Jump into another. . . . Eddleman brings a strong sense of atmosphere to this post-apocalyptic coming-of-age piece, and the underlying message—that its possible to contribute in unexpected ways—is a positive one. —Publishers Weekly Twelve-year-old Hope lives in White Rock, a town of inventors struggling to recover from the green bombs of World War III. But Hope is terrible at inventing and would much rather sneak off to cliff dive into the Bombs Breath—the deadly band of compressed air that covers the crater left by the bombs—than fail at yet another invention. When bandits discover that White Rock has priceless antibiotics, they invade. With a two-day deadline to finish making this years batch and no ingredients to make more, the town is left to choose whether to hand over the medicine and die from the disease thats run rampant since the bombs, or die fighting the bandits now.
