The Lost Child Of Chernobyl: A Graphic Novel

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Kathleen's review - This is a beautifully written graphic novel set in Chernobyl from the time that the nuclear reactor exploded. The author imagines a child having survived with the care of wild animals, and then being led to humans.

Compelling! And an excellent book to discuss with children you read this alongside.

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One April night, people living near Chernobyl see a great flash in the sky...Everyone is told to move out of the forbidden zone around the destroyed nuclear reactor, but two stubborn old ladies, Anna and Klara, refuse to leave. Nine years later, the forest wolves bring a ragged child to their - a child who has been living with wolves in the forbidden zone. Who is the lost child of Chernobyl and will Anna and Klara be able to find the child's family after all this time? Inspired by the real events of the global environmental disaster at Chernobyl in April 1986, this haunting and deeply relevant graphic novel is about the place of humans in the natural world, about healing, survival and the meaning of home. From the award-wining author of Peter in Peril, an USBBY Outstanding International Book, and Me and Mrs Moon.