| Phoenix Rising Contributor(s): Hesse, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312535627 ISBN-13: 9780312535629 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2009 Annotation: Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age - Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dewey: FIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Age Level: 10-13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grade Level: 5-8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lexile Measure: 610(Not Available) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Guided Reading: W (Grade 6) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 182 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Death/Dying - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Quiz #: 11733 Reading Level: 4.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
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| Publisher Description: "Pulling my radiation mask out of my pocket, my rough hands snagged the fine gauze. How could such a thin weave protect me from death? You can't see radiation, or smell it, or feel it. Could a mask stop it so easily?" Nyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruptions, and mistrust. Things become even more complicated when Ezra Trent and his mother, refugees from the heart of the accident, take temporary shelter in the back bedroom of Nyle's house. The back bedroom is the dying room: It took her mother when Nyle was six; it stole away her grandfather just two years ago. Now, Ezra is back there and Nyle doesn't want to open her heart to him. Too many times she's let people in, only to have them desert her. If she lets herself care for Ezra, she knows he'll end up leaving her, too. |
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Contributor Bio(s): Hesse, Karen: - Karen Hesse is the author of many books for young people, including Out of the Dust, winner of the Newbery Medal, Letters from Rifka, Brooklyn Bridge, Phoenix Rising, Sable and Lavender. In addition to the Newbery, she has received honors including the Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the MacArthur Fellowship "Genius" Award and the Christopher Award, and was nominated for a National Jewish Book Award. Born in Baltimore, Hesse graduated from the University of Maryland. She and her husband Randy live in Vermont. |
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