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Countdown
- By: Deborah Wiles
- Narrated by: Emma Galvin
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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It's 1962, and it seems that the whole country is living in fear. When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, it only gets worse. Franny doesn't know how to deal with what's going on in the world - no more than she knows how to deal with what's going on with her family and friends. But somehow she's got to make it through.
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Countdown
- Narrated by: Emma Galvin
- Series: The Sixties Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-03-21
- Language: English
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