The Gadget reviewed by Garrett Moon

• Garrett Moon, period 2
• The Gadget, By Paul Zindel

• Rate 3.5
• I rated this book this way because it was about the time of  World war II

• 1945 near the end of World War II and in New Mexico

• Stephen Orr, Dr. Orr Stephen's father and Stephen's friend Alexei
• 3 plot events

1. Stephen and Alexei were riding horses by a canyon and Stephen's horse the he was riding out of no where started to run by the edge.
2. Stephen's class went on a field trip and Stephen almost got kidnapped but got help from Alexei.
3. The American Government and Hitler's German physicists are racing to building an atomic bomb, that would change the fate of the war.  

• The main conflict of this book is that the war is almost over but Hitler is building an atomic bomb. But the American Government is doing the same thing.
• Young adults, people the like history book and people that like war books.