![]() ![]() Ray Bodley High School, Fulton, NYĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. References lend to the credibility of the content, and a glossary helps with difficult terminology.- Wendy Scalfaro, G. Photographs related to the disaster and Atkinson's traditional Ukrainian illustrations occasionally break up the text. She spends the next few years struggling to understand the catastrophe the unwavering patriotism of her father, who has thyroid cancer and discrimination from her peers. The government evacuates families, and Katya's beloved cottage, along with her childhood, are buried under tons of soil. Although she is forewarned about the disaster by a strange boy-her domovyk, or house elf-she is nonetheless unprepared. When her father, a security guard at the station and obviously suffering from radiation sickness, comes home with the news, Katya's life is forever changed. Katya Dubko celebrates her 11th birthday the day before the accident. The author reveals these effects in this coming-of-age story. Grade 5–9-The 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in the USSR had far-reaching effects, not only on the environment, but on people's lives as well. Andrea White has published several short stories and is the author of Surviving Antarctica, which won the Golden Spur Children's Literature Award, and Window Boy. ![]()
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