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1) The warning
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One year after a power-plant accident forces a small town to evacuate completely, Jordan returns with his family, but the town is mysteriously cut off from television and the Internet and the military will not let people enter or leave.
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2023 Caudill Award Nominees
2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Jewish American Heritage Month
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2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Jewish American Heritage Month
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"On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person....
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"Moldenke is sent to the 'free' prison town at Altobello with an indeterminate sentence for defecating on a grave. It was an accident. He has a rare bowel condition. Altobello is full of Jellyheads and features old nuclear reactor on the edge of town. No one seems to remember what the reactor really is, until it's almost too late."--Publisher website.