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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2015 | Middle Grade
Gr 5–7—It's New Year's Eve, and the residents of Harmony, NH, brave bitter cold to watch a spectacular display of the northern lights. Suddenly, blinding light flashes across the sky, and anything electric, from flashlight batteries to cell phones to home generators, dies. At first, residents band together. But as days pass, intimidation and eventually the use of deadly force by Webster Bragg, an antigovernment white supremacist, causes fear and uncertainty. When Bragg torches the local pharmacy, middle schooler Charlie Cobb must brave life-threatening elements—b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2016
"It was like the entire world had been switched off." One moment the town of Harmony, New Hampshire, had turned out to watch the aurora borealis "break-dance across the Milky Way," and the next moment a solar flare caused the power to go out everywhere. Lights, generators, batteries, and phones failed, all at the same time; planes fell from the sky. "The big dark" came. And under the cloak of darkness, the "nut bars," hate-monge...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on April 1, 2016
As the town of Harmony, New Hampshire, watched the aurora borealis, a solar flare caused the power to go out everywhere. Charli...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
