| Description |
1 audio-enabled book (537 pages ; 22 cm |
| Playing Time |
100600 |
| Description |
digital rda |
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audio file rda |
| Note |
Book originally published: Penguin Random House. |
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The permanently attached VOX Reader transforms an ordinary print book into an all-in-one read-along. There's no need for computers, tablets or CDs. Children simply push a button to listen and read--Publisher's website. |
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VOX Audio playback device includes headphone jack, external speaker, play/pause button, volume controls, page-turning controls, rechargeable battery, low battery indicator, and removable AC adapter. |
| Performer |
Read by Kathleen Gati / Natasha Soudek. |
| Summary |
A National Jewish Book Award Winner. A Sydney Taylor Middle Grade Honor Book. 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. Soon, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother. 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. But how far would you go to save your best friend's life? Would you risk your own? |
| Audience |
Ages 8-12. |
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4-8. |
| Subject |
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
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Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction.
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Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Ukraine -- Juvenile fiction.
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Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Ukraine -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Local Subject |
VOX BOOKS
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READALONG
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| Genre |
Children's audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Gati, Kathleen, 1957- narrator.
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Soudek, Natasha, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9798885193108 (VOX book) |
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