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Don't Breathe a Word

Jordyn Taylor

Ages: 14+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Harper Teen/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-06-303888-2

Keywords: 1960s, Cold War, Atomic bomb, Secret societies, Psychological experiments

Skipping between 1962 and today, the book unravels the secret behind an authoritarian secret society, and a psychological experiment that goes tragically wrong in a private school's fallout shelter.