6/28/2023 0 Comments Ashes book ilsa j bick![]() But Rule is a town of factions and unease, and what Alex discovers about its undercurrents may kill her. She eventually finds herself safe―or so she thinks―in Rule, where a council of church elders holds sway. "Seventeen-year-old Alex is alone on a Michigan mountainside when electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) released into the atmosphere above Earth shut down power and communications grids, trigger nuclear devices, and turn most adolescents into flesh-eating zombies. Highly Recommended." ―starred review, Library Media Connection ( Journal) ![]() ![]() Bick has a winner with this series and your students, including reluctant readers, will love it. Oh, and did I mention the Zombies? Fans of Hunger Games, and Everlost will be looking for the next book. Forming a small family with a little girl whose grandfather was killed and a young solider named Tom, Alex faces a new and terrifying world. However, she becomes an unexpected survivor of an EMP, electromagnetic pulse, that destroys every electronic device and leaves billions of people dead. The story opens with Alex, a teenage survivalist backpacking to a remote area to scatter her parents' ashes and deal with her own impending death from a brain tumor. ![]() ![]() "This book is the first in a new dystopian thriller trilogy. ![]()
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