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Cover of The Doomsday Box

The Doomsday Box

Herbie Brennan (2010)

SubgenreMiddle Grade Fantasy
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SeriesThe Shadow Project #2
Setting
CSM age10
Goodreads3.79
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Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

Plague/EpidemicWar

Positive tags

AdventureFriendshipSurvivalQuestMystery

Protagonist archetypes

Ensemble CastTime-DisplacedSpy / Operative

Tropes

Time TravelQuestFellowshipFound FamilyFish out of WaterSecondary World

Themes

Time Travel ParadoxEspionageFriendship Under PressureHistorical EventsPreventing CatastropheCold War Era

Synopsis

Working on a highly-classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century.

Tags

Spy ThrillerTime Travel AdventureHistorical FantasyEspionage