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Title details for Fire Will Fall by Carol Plum-Ucci - Available

Fire Will Fall

#2 in series

by Carol Plum-Ucci
Julia Whelan
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Bioterrorists watch and wait, ready to fuel another nightmare.

ShadowStrike poisoned the water of Trinity Falls two months ago. Now the Trinity Four, the teens most affected by the poison, have been isolated in a remote mansion under twenty-four-hour medical care while scientists on four continents rush to discover a cure.

For Scott, Cora, Owen, and Rain, life is anything but peaceful at the old Kellerton mansion. Boredom and resentment build as they struggle with annoying—and possibly fatal—symptoms, while dueling with their own personal demons.

Meanwhile, US operatives scour the world for the bioterrorists responsible for this heinous crime as two teen virtual spies, also infected, hunt for the criminals on the Internet. The danger remains real—for ShadowStrike has every reason to pursue the Trinity Four, and their evil plan will unleash a new designer virus that's even deadlier than the first.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Streams of Babel

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 20, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781483066981
      • File size: 423437 KB
      • Duration: 14:42:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 810
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Seven months after 9/11 and two months after the Trinity Falls water supply was poisoned in a bioterrorism attack, four motherless teen victims, isolated under the government's protection, are fighting for their lives. Doctors and scientists rush to find a cure as two teen hackers try to locate Shadowstrike, the group responsible, before they can strike again. Sounds like an exciting thriller, doesn't it? But, at almost 15 hours, "tedious" is the word that best describes this listening experience. The characters cover the same days and events from their own perspectives, making the story monotonous and repetitious. The best efforts of an outstanding cast do not breathe life into the story or arouse empathy in the listener. N.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 24, 2010
      Plum-Ucci's underwhelming follow-up to Streams of Babel (2008) again explores the effects of bioterrorism on a group of teenagers who continue to suffer from being poisoned in an attack on their New Jersey town's water supply. The sequel picks up shortly after the first book, as Cora, Owen, Rain, and Scott deal both with the disease that threatens their lives and with the publicity associated with the attack. While the teenagers sort out their issues regarding their feelings for their parents (and each other), two teen hackers do their best to monitor the actions of ShadowStrike, the terrorist organization behind the attacks, whose members may be quite close. Unfortunately, as the narrative shifts among the six teenage characters, the story gets lost amid their angst, with pages and pages of introspection and miscommunication slowing down what little plot there is. The events that do take place often seem out of the characters' hands (excluding the denouement), with things simply happening to them, and the dialogue is rarely interesting enough to carry the book through these passages. Ages 14–up.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:810
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.