Nuclear Winter
John Gutierrez
Paperback
(Independently published, March 3, 2020)
Nuclear Winter is a dystopian story of Andie Shipman, an eighth grader who is the new kid in a small school, and a group of her classmates. She has a crush on the popular boy, Javy. They are on a robotics team together and struggle to connect. Andie, Javy, and some of their classmates are thrust into a survival situation when a nuclear missile hits a nearby air base. Andie’s relationship with Javy and her other classmates grows throughout the story as they try to survive the aftermath of the missile blast while trapped in their middle school