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Hesse, Karen.
PHOENIX RISING
New York : Puffin Books, 1994.
IL 5-8
ISBN 0140376283
A leak in the nuclear power plant sends radiation all through New England. People are getting very ill and dying. Nyle and her grandmother stay on their farm in Vermont and hope that the wind will continue to blow east and keep them safe. They must use protective masks when they tend the sheep. Gran decides to take in two victims of the terrible accident. Nyle does not want to get to know these people because she is afraid of the inevitable death. Can she overcome her fear of death and help the victims of the accident? Read PHOENIX RISING to find out.
SUBJECTS:     Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Fiction
                        Death -- Fiction
                        Friendship -- Fiction
                        Vermont -- Fiction

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