Phoenix Rising

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Summary: A wonderful heart-wrenching story!
Review: I usually don't like these kind of books, but this was great. When I finished reading it I had to have more. Even if this book isn't the kind that you would normally read, give it a try, this is a great book for anyone.

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Summary: beautiful, touching
Review: This book was wonderful! Nyle's sadness and troubles seem so real. It is such a good book, so sad, so touching

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Summary: A Touching Book
Review: Phoenix Rising told of the sadness of something that was so real. Karen Hesse expressed the feelings of every character so well, you could imagine that you were there

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Summary: A Good Story
Review: This story is about a girl and her Gran who have taken in evacuees from the nuclear accident in Cookshire.

The girl (Nyle) falls in love with an evacuee: Ezra. And the writing gets very long and tainted when she talks about him. You kind of want to puke.

But overall, it was a good story. But the ending was sad, because Ripley rapes Nyle and Ezra makes mutant babies with Muncie (Nyle's friend). Ezra's mother also takes over the world.

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Summary: What a GREAT book!
Review: In the novel Pheonix Rising, by Karen Hesse, Nyle and her grandmother live on a sheep farm near a nuclear plant that has a radiation leak. They take in two evacuees, a boy, Ezra, about Nyle's age, and his mother. Ezra has soaked an unhealthy amount of radiation, having lived near the plant, and now his mother, Nyle, and Nyle's grandmother are basically trying to make Nyle's death as comfortable as possible. Nyle doesn't want anything to do with Ezra, she doesn't want to feel the pain of his death. But when she develops a friendship with him, and he starts to slowly recover, she begins to get used to having Ezra around.
This book was very moving and well-written. It really opens the reader's eyes to the dangers of our world today. Perhaps the most alarming aspect of this story is that the situation described could easily happen to of us today; a horrible life in a book could easily become a nightmare of reality. Imagine a world where you can't leave your house without wearing a gauze mask to prevent breathing in radiation. Where the thousands of people living within a 5 mile radius around a nucleur power plant are infected with a deadly disease instantly, and have to leave everything they own behind, and seek refuge with total strangers. Where hospitals are filled to capacity with patients waiting to die. This was where Nyle and Ezra had to live, and where we could easily live, too. It's scary to think about the seriousness of this novel.
I personally liked the author's writing style. The action moves quickly, and the relationships between the characters are well-developed. The author's vivid descriptions help to convey a sense of urgency to the audience.
I recommend this book to anyone, no matter what kind of book you like, because this book can be classified as a romance, a sciens fiction, and even a tear-jerker. It's a quick, easy read, and everyone should receive the lessons this story teaches. This book will leave you thinking, and you may even feel compelled to try to make a difference in our world.
This book is well-worth the time and money to read, and I hope you'll heed my advice and read it.