description: 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 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, this is a tour de force by a gifted writer.
language: German
title: Phoenix Rising. ( Ab 13 J.).
titlecomplete: Phoenix Rising. ( Ab 13 J.).
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Science Fiction, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 1668
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Charlotte Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Dtv