Close your eyes, hold hands

Description:

Six months ago, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Her father was in charge of the plant-- was he drunk when it happened? Instead of following the rest of the refugees after the meltdown, Emily takes off on her own for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug dealer's apartment, and inventing a new identity for herself. When Emily befriends Cameron, a homeless boy, she protects him with a ferocity she didn't know she had. But can she outrun her past, or escape her grief?

subjects: Runaways,  Nuclear accidents,  Fiction,  Runaway teenagers,  Teenage girls,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Teenagers,  Nuclear power plants,  Accidents,  Imposters and imposture,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, dystopian,  Young women, fiction,  Runaway teenagers in literature