Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: HISTORICAL F BLA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work, Chernobyl, has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Oksana must face the lies her parents told her all her life. Valentina must keep her grandmother's secret, one that could put all their lives in danger. And both of them discover something they've wished for: a best friend.
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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: FIC BLANKMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relocating to Leningrad in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, neighbors Valentina and Oksana, who have been taught to hate each other because of religious differences, uncover painful family secrets while learning what it means to trust another person.
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2021., Juvenile, Puffine Books Call No: FIC BLANKMAN Genre: Historical fiction Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sworn enemies and fifth-grade classmates, Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko are sent from their home in Pripyat, Ukraine, to live with Valentina's grandmother in Leningrad after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. Oksana, whose abusive father perished in the accident and whose mother is hospitalized, resents being sent with Valentina, because she's been taught her whole life to hate Jews. Yet, after seeing the warm relationship between Valentina and her grandmother Rita, Oksana begins to question the lies she's been told about herself and others, and begins a friendship with Valentina.
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2020., Juvenile, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print striving readers collection.Summary Note: Sworn enemies and fifth-grade classmates, Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko are sent from their home in Pripyat, Ukraine, to live with Valentina's grandmother in Leningrad after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. Oksana, whose abusive father perished in the accident and whose mother is hospitalized, resents being sent with Valentina, because she's been taught her whole life to hate Jews. Yet, after seeing the warm relationship between Valentina and her grandmother Rita, Oksana begins to question the lies she's been told about herself and others, and begins a friendship with Valentina.
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c1990., Lucent Books Call No: 363.17 Nar Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: World disastersSummary Note: Examines the Chernobyl nuclear accident in its historical, cultural, political, and human contexts.
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1989., Bookwright Press Call No: 363.1 79 RICKARD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great disastersSummary Note: Describes the events and aftermath of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl and discusses its long term effects and the future implications for nuclear power plants.
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2005., Facts on File, Inc. Call No: 333.79 ING Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Environmental disastersSummary Note: A thorough examination of the circumstances surrounding the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power station, generally accepted to be the worst nuclear disaster in history.
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c2005, Juvenile, Facts on File Call No: 363.17 99 094776 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Environmental disastersSummary Note: Presents a comprehensive survey of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union on April 26, 1986, and examines the radioactive fallout that extended to most of Europe, the Soviet cover-up, and the long-term effects on the people and the environment.
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c2002., Juvenile, Chelsea House Call No: 363.17 Bre Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great disasters, reforms and ramificationsSummary Note: Presents a chronicle of the disaster that occurred at the Chernobyl-4 nuclear reactor in Ukraine on April 26, 1986, after an accumulation of unchecked steam pressure blew the reactor lid off during a maintenance test, spewing deadly nuclear particles into the air.
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-- Untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster2020., Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Call No: HI-INT 363.179 HIG Edition: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful nonfiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Midnight in Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will--lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary"--Publisher's website.
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By Mayell, Mark2004., Pre-adolescent, Lucent Books Call No: 363.17 99 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Man-made disastersSummary Note: Discusses the uses of radioactive substances and the dangers they present, including fallout from nuclear weapons testing, the meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant, and uranium mining accidents.
