

Escape from Chernobyl (Escape From #1)
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
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Andy Marino
"Nonstop action, real history, serious danger. You gotta read these books!" --Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee 26 April 198601:18Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds.Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop.Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride.In five minutes, Reactor No. 4 will explode in a ball of fire. It will expel radiation across their town for nine days before it's finally contained. For the people of Pripyat, it will be far too late.-- Two young siblings flee the Chernobyl disaster with their parents, but the Communist party is on their heels. Meanwhile, the friends and family they were forced to leave behind must contend with a disinformation campaign that's determined to pretend nothing is wrong-even as deadly radiation spills into the air.
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Author
Andy Marino
Pages
176
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Published Date
2021
ISBN
1338718452 9781338718454
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"Has anyone read this? It is what got me interested in the Soviet era and the Cold War. It started something that has no intention to end. "
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Davis dunlap
"It’s a book of good and bad and of the friendship and relationship of people. Like two girls trying to search for each other in a disaster. And one of the said girls searching for a boy who is in the midst of the disaster the she likes."
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Maddie Abbott
"Good. Read it for school"
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Mikey Tibbert
"This is a sad, negative topic for middle school and elementary kids, but was helpful for me in introducing me to a little known historical event."
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Jessica English-Ramsay