Louise Lawrence
Paperback | Pages: 176 pages Rating: 3.98 | 1719 Users | 166 Reviews
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| Title | : | Children of the Dust |
| Author | : | Louise Lawrence |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | February 7th 2002 by Red Fox (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Young Adult. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Fiction. Dystopia |
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After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with strange mutations.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 destruction, comes new life, a new future, and a whole brave new world.
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| Original Title: | Children of the Dust |
| ISBN: | 0099433427 (ISBN13: 9780099433422) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 1719 Users | 166 ReviewsCriticism Regarding Books Children of the Dust
Ever since we have been dealing with Corvid-19 I kept thinking of a quote from this book. Sarah, the older sister is talking about her cautious sibling Catherine."It's as if she knows." said Sarah. "As if she has an instinct. Right from the beginning she wouldn't drink that water, not even when I mixed it with milk powder. She had to have hers from the container. And she hardly comes out from under the table except to go to the toilet. She's managed to avoid contamination and she hasn't beenThis book utterly terrified me when I first read it, and has stayed with me for many years. The book's impact was not lessened upon re-reading as an adult.The novel illustrates the complete and total devastation wrought upon the human race (and the physical environment upon which our lives are entirely dependent) in this novel by the sheer arrogance and stupidity by the powerful in haunting, frightening detail, and pulls no punches. The book does have a somewhat hopeful ending, but it is
I am very surprised by the very good quality of this book,it is well writen and full of concepts as humanity ,solidarity ,ecología ,pacifism and antixenofobia.It is light years of the Young adult books today in print,it says more in 150 pages tan others in 1500.For me it is a book that would be of obligued read in all schools of the world ,it would be a better world.After a beautiful prologue by the autor, the book has three chapters with three heroines relatives one another in chronologic
Written in the early 80's at the height of the nuclear cold war threat, this has to be one of the more hopeful apocalypse novels I have read. It follows three generations of an English family from minutes before the bombs hit to 50 years post-apocalypse. Lawrence juxtaposes two societies of survivors; the "outsiders" who live through the holocaust on their own abilities independent of the remaining government, and the society of government top-ranking families that lives below ground in the
I remember I saw the cover of this book in junior high. It was a dark brown hardcover with gold letters. I checked it out purely on the look of it. I read it in two days. I could have read it in one but I was enamored, and I wanted it to last since I knew it would be over too soon. It was one of the few early books I read where I actually cried. I wondered how this could be in my junior high library since it dealt with nuclear war and what happens afterwards. I think perhaps it was my first peak
I first read this book when I stole it from my older sister who was reading it for a school project. The first section of the book "Sarah" had me in tears. Being of a similar age to Sarah I was really upset by the horrors she had to face. The next two books go on to show the next generations of Sarah's family and how they survived the nuclear holocaust. It's an interesting view. I like the way the author didn't shy away from the mutilation, from the harsh reality of life after a nuclear
When I read this book as a tween, it made a huge impression on me. In fact, I had nightmares for years afterwards. It took me a while to track this down as an adult, but I finally found a copy at my local op-shop. I was worried that it would seem corny or dull and flat after all these years, as childhood favourites often do, but my worry was wasted. While I wasn't left with nightmares this time around, I found the book as emotionally disturbing, engaging and thought-provoking as I did when I was
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