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Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
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Children of the Dust (original 1985; edition 1985)

by Louise Lawrence

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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.
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Title:Children of the Dust
Authors:Louise Lawrence
Info:HarperCollins (1985), Mass Market Paperback, 183 pages
Collections:Read but unowned
Rating:***1/2
Tags:fiction, young adult, speculative fiction, apocalypse, English, 1985, borrowed, read 1988

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Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence (1985)

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I read this book in fourth grade or so, while we were stuck in the car on a hot day, driving endless around Northern California. It was an incredibly depressing book.
  csoki637 | Nov 27, 2016 |
I read this in middle school, and it traumatized the hell out of me. It begins before nuclear bombs go off, and then pitilessly takes a few characters (children and one of their parents) through their attempts to survive. To this day I put covers over my drinking water so that radioactive dust won't drift down and contaminate it, as I vividly remember it doing in this book.
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2 vote wealhtheowwylfing | Feb 29, 2016 |
The nuclear war has begun. Who will survive and what kind of life will they be left with when the dust clears? This book follows one family that is split up as the bombs fall on Great Britain, and what happens when their descendents are reunited.

A great book on preparedness, adaptation, change and acceptance of that change and how we can make the best of a really bad thing. ( )
  CharityBradford | Apr 1, 2014 |
The nuclear war has begun. Who will survive and what kind of life will they be left with when the dust clears? This book follows one family that is split up as the bombs fall on Great Britain, and what happens when their descendents are reunited.

A great book on preparedness, adaptation, change and acceptance of that change and how we can make the best of a really bad thing. ( )
  CharityBradford | Apr 1, 2014 |
I have a great soft spot for apocalyptic teenage fiction, so was expecting to love this, surprised that I'd never read it when I was a teenager and devouring Brother in the Land and Z for Zachariah. There was lots in it I liked - the contrast between the survivors outside and the people leaving the bunker and the conflicts this created was a really interesting thought I hadn't seen done before. But as an adult reader it all felt a bit clumsy and laid on with a trowel - Sarah's 'I will die, but I will make sure Catherine lives' was far too resigned and prim and fatalistic for most teenage heroines. Likewise Simon's final acceptance that Laura and the mutants are a beautiful, better future. There's also a big dollop of 'God has a great plan which he is working out despite our idiocies' which probably appeals to some people more than others. ( )
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That they may never know the dust
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It was such a perfect day, a promise of summer with cloudless blue skies.
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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.

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Publishers' blurb: 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.



"There's only one thing worse than dying in a nuclear war and that's surviving," said Sarah bitterly. "Even if we live through the next fourteen days, there will be nothing left! Just ruins and radiation sickness...no one to help us, no means of living."

But Sarah is wrong. Out of the dust comes - in the end - new life, hope, and a golden vision of the future.
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