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S.A. Bodeen's The Compound is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone. Eli's father built the Compound to keep them safe. Now, they can't get out. He won't let them. The Compound is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

After his parents, sisters, and he have spent years in an underground compound built by his father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, Eli, whose twin and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax.