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ISBN: 0140376283

ISBN13: 9780140376289

Phoenix Rising

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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. Nyle adjusts to the changes. As long as the fallout continues blowing to the East, Nyle, Gran, and the farm can go on. But into this uncertain haven stumble Ezra Trent and his mother, "refugees" from the heart of the accident, who 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. Karen Hesse's voice and vision are grounded in truth; she takes on a nearly unharnessable subject, contains it, and makes it resonate with honesty. Part love story, part coming of age, Phoenix Rising is a tour de force by a gifted writer. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Anna's Book Review

I read the book Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse. This book is about a girl, Nyle, who lives with her grandmother. Nyle's mother died when she was young and her father left because he couldn't watch Nyle's mom die. When a nuclear explosion goes off at a power plant in Cookshire, many are left homeless and sick. Nyle and her grandmother take in two evacuees, Ezra and Mrs. Trent. At first, Nyle is reluctant for Ezra to come, but...

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Living In The Aftermath

At age thirteen Nyle Summer has already lost so much. Her father walked out. Her mother died. Her grandfather died. And now it's just Nyle and her grandmother left alone in the house to work the farm. They get by well enough. The chores get done, the sheep are well cared for. Then comes the accident. A nuclear reactor in a nearby town suffers a meltdown. The little town of North Haversham is safe but all around radiation...

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Aww yeah.

This was the best book I have ever read. I know that's really all I need to say, but I'm going to tell you a little about it too. A girl named Nyle Sumner lives with her 'Gran' on a sheep farm in Vermont. A nuclear power plant in Cookshire, Massechusetts (? I'm guessing it's MA) exploded, causing radiation to leak out and affect cities miles away. Nyle's grandmother decides to take in evacuees from the accident, Miriam and...

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Nyle understands that is important for her to help people.

It all starts when a nuclear spill takes place. A boy named Ezra is sick from radiation poisioning. He goes to live with Nyle and her Gram. At first Nyle doesn't like the idea of having him and his mother, but she gets over it. Ezra grows stronger everyday, but sometimes he is very weak. Nyle doesn't tell Muncie, her best friend, about Ezra. Nyle is starting to like having Ezra around and spends a lot of time with...

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