Andrea White - Radiant Girl
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- Название:Radiant Girl
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- Издательство:Bright Sky Press
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- Год:2008
- Город:Houston
- ISBN:978-1-933979-23-6
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Steeped in the imagery of her people, Katya believes that the station is a magical factory, and she looks for men in white robes, the angels she has heard push buttons to create electricity. When she asks her father about the station, he reassures her that it is safe: “so safe I would let you and Mama sleep there. I’d let a baby sleep there.” Yet when Katya is sent into the forest to play while her family prepares her birthday dinner, she meets Vasyl, a mysterious otherworldly boy who tells her the agonizing truth: her world will be destroyed in an explosion. What is she to believe?
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, and the Soviet government refused to acknowledge the extent of the disaster. As Katya struggles to survive in the aftermath, Vasyl reenters her life and helps her to realize that there can be no healing without truth, however difficult it may be to face. As she reconnects with her friends from before the explosion, she begins to learn more about the scientific concepts that have changed their world, and she discovers that blind patriotism like her father’s can be the undoing of a country as well as a man. With the help of friends she could have never imagined in her old life, Katya begins to understand that the things that are most important about her homeland and herself have survived the disaster. Combining the mythological truths of her ancestors with an understanding of the science behind the Chernobyl explosion, Katya finds the strength to fulfill a promise she made to herself many years before. And from her new vantage point she realizes that she is no longer the little girl in the fairy tale, she has become the author of her own story.
Radiant Girl weaves history, fantasy, photographs and illustrations together to create a fictional coming of age tale that offers readers insight on surviving the powerful forces of change that rock their own lives, both from within and without.
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Copyright
2365 Rice Boulevard, Suite 202, Houston, Texas 77005
Copyright © 2008 by Andrea White
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval devices or systems, without prior written permission from the publisher, except that brief passages may be quoted for reviews.
10987654321
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data
White, Andrea, 1953-
Radiant Girl / by Andrea White.
p. cm.
Summary: In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, a Ukrainian girl named Katya comes to understand the things most important about her homeland, and in combining the mythological strength of her ancestors with a newly acquired comprehension of the scientific truth of the event, Katya fulfills a promise she made to herself many years before.
ISBN 978-1-933979-23-6 (jacketed hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986—Juvenile fiction.
[1. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986—Fiction. 2. Nuclear power plants—Accidents—Fiction. 3. Disasters—Fiction. 4. Ukraine—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W58177Rad 2008
[Fic]—dc22
2008014633
Book and cover design by Cregan Design,
Ellen Peeples Cregan and Marla Garcia
Edited by Lucy Herring Chambers and Nora Krisch Shire
Illustrations by Elaine Atkinson
Photographs:
Pages 108,199, 202, 221, Copyright 2007, James B. Willard, http://brokenkites.com
Pages 95, 161, Copyright 2006, Igor Kostin/Corbis Corp., www.corbis.com
Page 247, Portrait of Katya, Courtesy of Tetyana Keeble
Printed in the U.S.A. by Ocean-graphics LLC
The text of Radiant Girl is set in Garamond, a typeface attributed to Claude Garamond, who is considered the first independent typefounder. Although he did not invent movable type, he was the first to make type available to printers at an affordable price. In 1541 Garamond was commissioned by François I to cut a sequence of Greek fonts known as the grecs du roi . Modern typefaces bearing the Garamond name are not always based on these designs, but they share certain characteristics of timeless beauty and readability.
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VC p. 168
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, page 99, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, page 150, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, page 150, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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WF p. 13
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, page 186, 1991, Perseus Books Group, New York
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, page 150, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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JC p. 116
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VC p. 132
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VC p. 133
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ABL p. 148
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, pages 188-89, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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VC p. 93
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VC p. 71
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VC p. 71
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VC p. 34
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VC p. 177
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VC p. 264
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ABL p. 208
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ABL p. 270
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WF p. 13
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ABL p. 238
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ABL p. 270
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ABL p. 210
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, pages 73-77, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, pages 73-77, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, page 89, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, page 124, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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The Truth About Chernobyl By Grigori Medvedev, page 83, 1991 Perseus Books Group, New York
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WF p. 14
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WF p. 56
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WF p. 223
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JC p. 90
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VC p. 34
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