Monday

Compound by S.A. Bodeen

2008, New York: Feiwel and Friends.
ISBN: 9780312370152
256 pages

Annotation: A teen boy, living in an underground compound with his family, learns his father is living one big lie after he discovers his twin brother is alive in the outside world.

Summary: Eli, a fifteen year old, has lived with his family in an underground compound his billionaire father built, for the last six years. The father had built the compound to save his family from nuclear warfar. While in the compound Eli does the same thing from day to day, but then Eli discovers that things are happening that should not be happening. The family begins to run out of food in the compound and the animals they do have begin to die. His father begins to take extreme measures to supposedly help the survival of the family. Eli thinks what his father is trying to do is morally and ethically wrong. Eli then discovers a laptop with internet connection. He finds out that his twin brother is alive in the outside world and that there was a nuclear threat.

Rank: 3.5 Stars-Different and intersesting although slightly lacking.