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• Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2007

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Anyone who has ever wondered what the neighborhood geek might be brewing up in his backyard should read The Radioactive Boy Scout. This is a riveting and disturbing story about the power of the teenage mind--and the sparks that fly when a nuclear family melts down. <br>--David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom <br> Amazing . . . unsettling . . . should come with a warning: Don't buy [this book] for any obsessive kids in the family. It might give them ideas. <br> - Rocky Mountain News <br> <br> An astounding story . . . [Silverstein] has a novelist's eye for meaningful detail and a historian's touch for context. <br>-The San Diego Union-Tribune <br> Alarming . . . The story fascinates from start to finish. <br>-Outside <br> Enthralling . . . [It] has the quirky pleasures of a Don DeLillo novel or an Errol Morris documentary. . . . An engaging portrait of a person whose life on America's fringe also says something about mainstream America. <br>-Minneapolis Star Tribune <p> [Silverstein] does a fabulous job of letting David [Hahn's] surrealistic story tell itself. . . . But what's truly amazing is how far Hahn actually got in the construction of his crude nuclear reactor. <br> - The Columbus Dispatch <br> <br>

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KEN SILVERSTEIN is an investigative reporter for the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Los Angeles Times. A former contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine, in which a portion of this story first appeared, he has written for Mother Jones, The Nation, and The American Prospect, among others. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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