A super volcano under Yellowstone National Park has erupted! With the eruption came earthquakes and lots and lots of Ash. Alex was excited about his weekend at home alone until this happens. His world is plunged into darkness, ash and violence. As the area looses power and food and everyday conveniences they kind of also begin to loose their humanity. Alex tries to make his way to his Uncle's house in Iowa to find his family. I think 8th graders will really like this scary apocalypse novel. A note to the squeamish and my vegetarian friends...they do have to butcher some animals to use for food (a rabbit and a pig). This part is pretty detailed so if this is going to bother you, you may want to skip this part when you get to it. There is a book two called Ashen Winter that we have in the library, but I have not had the chance to read it. I liked the author's note in the back that gives us a little bit of information about the super volcano that really does exist under Yellowstone National Park. Luckily for us, it has only erupted 3 times in the last 2.1 million years. The last one was 640,000 years ago.
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