description: Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
language: English
title: Z for Zachariah
titlecomplete: Z for Zachariah
characters: John Loomis, Anne Burden
genres: Dystopia, School, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Teen, Classics, Fiction, Survival
ratings_count: 15956
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Juvenile
publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc