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(The following is a news item posted on the Raincoast Blog at http://blogs.raincoast.com it was emailed to you using the Tell A Friend feature.) Click here to read the full item: http://blogs.raincoast.com/weblog/lessons-of-chernobyl/ Twenty years have passed since the nuclear power plant disaster on April 26, 1986, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The Chernobyl disaster is widely regarded as the worst accident in the history of nuclear power, but it also provided the background for Beryl Young’s novel for young adults Wishing Star Summer. Wishing Star Summer deals indirectly with the Chernobyl disaster but more directly with issues of friendship and jealousy. Jillian Nelson, 11 years old and newly moved… ...

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