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Karen Hesse
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Publication date
October 1, 1999
Binding
Prebinding
Book category
Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13
9780785777939
ISBN-10
0785777938
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$14.55
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
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
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Nyleâs 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, Nyleâs 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 Nyleâs 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 doesnât want to open her heart to him. Too many times sheâs let people in, only to have them desert her. If she lets herself care for Ezra, she knows heâll end up leaving her, too. âThe authorâs understated approach heightens the emotional impact of her searching and memorable tale.â â Publishers Weekly, Starred Review âHesse transcends the specific to illuminate universal questions of responsibility, care, and love. . . . Hesse portrays her charactersâ anguish and their growing tenderness with such unwavering clarity and grace that she sustains the tension of her lyrical, understated narrative right to her stunning, beautifully wrought conclusion.â â Kirkus Reviews, Pointer Review
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