Children Of The Dust

Children Of The Dust
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9781446430781
ISBN-13 : 1446430782
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Book Synopsis Children Of The Dust by : Louise Lawrence

Download or read book Children Of The Dust written by Louise Lawrence and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful post-nuclear holocaust novel described by the author as, 'my cry against the monstrous weapons men have made'. Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad, the headmaster said, and a full-scale nuclear attack was imminent . . . It's a real-life nightmare. Sarah and her family have to stay cooped up in the tightly-sealed kitchen for days on end, dreading the inevitable radioactive fall-out and the subsequent slow, torturous death, which seems almost preferable to surviving in a grey, dead world, choked by dust. But then, from out of the dust and the ruins and the desolation, comes new life, a new future, and a whole brave new world...


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