Copyright © 2008 by Andrea White
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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
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