The Bomb

I read the book After the Bomb. I though this was a great book. The beginning of the book went slow. It was not very interesting. Philip is the main character. He likes to play the guitar and he likes girls. Matt, Philips, older brother is dating the girl he likes Cara. Cara is a popular girl at school. The book takes place in a town in the outskirts of Los Angeles, California.

Throughout the book Philip is trying to keep his family alive. The book starts in Philips room when he is playing his guitar. Then he goes down to dinner. The next night him and Matt go to the dance at their school. Matt is talking to a lot of girls so Cara takes Philip to dance on the dance floor. Then after the dance Philip goes home to practice his guitar and then he went to bed. The next day Matt barrows some money from Philip. That night at dinner Philip and his mother get into a very big fight.

Philip gets his guitar and goes in to the bomb shelter. Then Matt and Cara go down into the shelter to try to cheer him up. After a little while of talking they hear a very loud sudden sound. Matt opens the top of the shelters door and see's a very bright dome shaped light. He jumps back into the shelter as fast as he could. Cara started freaking out and crying. A few minutes after the bomb stuck the earth Matt went out looking for his mother. After a while Philip starts to get very worried and goes out to check if Matt is all right. He see's Matt trying to pick up his mother up so Philip goes and helps his brother pick up his mother and take her to the shelter.

Philips mother is very severely burnt. She has burns all over her body from head to toe. Matt starts getting radiation sickness and throughs up. Philip goes to see if he could get help. Mean while the shelter starts to get real hot inside. Then Philip returns and gets his family to go next door to take shelter in the next door neighbors house's basement. They stay cool there until all of the fires