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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Baba Dunja is a Chernobyl returnee. Together with a motley bunch of former neighbours, they set off to create a new life for themselves in the radioactive no-man's land. Geiger counter and irradiated forest fruits be damned, there in that abandoned patch of Earth they have everything they need. Terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up with 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja whiles away her days writing...
3) Chernobyl
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
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Language
English
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"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,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Description
When a group of unsuspecting American tourists stumbles across the Chernobyl exclusion zone whilst on their travels across Eastern Europe, their intrigue quickly turns to cold fear. Evil awaits in the form of ghosts of the hundreds of citizens who died trying to flee the aftermath of the explosion. It looks like the group has no hope when they meet a mysterious barely-living girl, but will she help them escape alive?
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English
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"A chilling exposé of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl. Governments and journalists tell us that though Chernobyl was "the worst nuclear disaster in history," a reassuringly small number of people died (44), and nature recovered. Yet, drawing on a decade of fine-grained archival research and interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown uncovers a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
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"The long-term damage from an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant more than 30 years ago is still unknown. When explosions ripped through the reactor in rural Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, they spewed huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere and caused the worst nuclear disaster in history. About 10,000 people have died or will die because of their exposure to radiation, and experts worry about the children born...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
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"In the early morning of April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became unstable, causing a huge explosion. But the disaster was only just beginning. Follow along with the true story of a doomed power plant that is still dangerous today. Then, review what you've learned with a recap timeline and a quick quiz to check how much doomed history you remember"--
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English
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Early on an April Saturday in 1986 in a farm village in Ukraine, widow Marusia Petrenko and her family awake to a day of traditional wedding preparations. Marusia bakes her famous wedding bread-a korovai-in the communal village oven to take to her neighbor's granddaughter's reception. Late that night, after all the dancing and drinking, Marusia's son Yurko leaves for his shift at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl.
In the morning, the air has a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
"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....
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English
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Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction Grand Master Frederik Pohl presents a fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history.
Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant.
On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the Ukrainian air. More than four thousand people died,...
16) Chernobyl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
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Description
"Early readers will learn about the science behind the Chernobyl disaster through carefully leveled text and photo illustrations. Includes glossary and index."--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Chernobyl, 1986. Without humans, how will dogs survive? As humans fled the nuclear disaster, they were forced to leave their pets behind. Without people, nature began to return to the woods surrounding the power plant--lynx, bear, and wolves. But the overgrown forest is no place for dogs. Can Zoya, and her pups Misha and Luka, learn to survive in the deadlands? And will Zoya ever find her way home to her beloved owner?"--
Author
Series
Twisted (Wil Mara) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
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Description
Twins Madison and Mason Page have everything two kids could ever want, but they don't seem to appreciate any of it. One day, they dive into their luxurious swimming pool and surface in a very different place. They emerge into another town, long since abandoned. Trapped in this new world, they venture forth, finding evidence that the town's former residents must have suffered some sort of horrible fate before disappearing. Then it hits them. They have...
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English
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As the world moved on, find out what happened to those left behind in this memoir of tragedy and death, people and land, and what comes after disaster. April 26, 1986. The reactor core of the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl began to melt, setting into motion the greatest nuclear disaster of the twentieth century. While Europe slept, a cloud laden with radiation traveled thousands of miles in every direction, contaminating five million people who...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Un relato fascinante. Un hecho real narrado con el trepidante ritmo de una novela. Andrew Leatherbarrow, movido por una insaciable curiosidad, reúne en este libro todos los aspectos para entender qué pasó, qué significó y qué significa hoy en día Chernóbil: los detalles técnicos, explicados con claridad; las historias humanas, a través de las biografías de sus protagonistas y de multitud de detalles que dan voz a las víctimas de Chernóbil;...
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