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1) Blackout
Author
Language
English
Description
When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
Author
Series
My weirder school volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mr. Harrison is the tech guy at Ella Mentry School and when the power goes out and everyone is yelling and freaking out in the dark, can they count on him to save the day?
3) Unplugged
Author
Language
English
Description
Blip is always plugged into her computer--until one day a blackout forces her outdoors, and she discovers that the real world is a lot more interesting then she realized.
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 16
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Zack loves everything about his new planet, Nebulon, until there is a complete cosmic blackout and he must try to function without his Indoor Robotic Assistant and hyperphone.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--
8) Blackout
Author
Language
English
Description
When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the National Book Award–winning author of Underworld, a "daring...provocative...exquisite" (The Washington Post) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event.
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting...
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting...
10) Dies the fire
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Language
English
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Description
S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling postapocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless.
The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable—and plunged the world into a dark age humanity was unprepared to face...
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The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable—and plunged the world into a dark age humanity was unprepared to face...
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11) Aurora: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family.
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.
Then the lights go out-not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar...
Author
Series
Future according to Luz volume 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
One minute, Luz and her friends are snacking on chocolate bars and getting rides to the mall. The next, Luz's mom can't afford to gas or groceries, and the city is dimmed by blackouts. Luz sets her heart on transforming her fossil-fueled world. But how much can one twelve-year-old do? Told in graphic novel format.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components. In entertaining,...
14) A oscuras
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
When a storm causes a neighborhood blackout, Sofia and her father come up with a plan for the perfect family night without electricity.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy, popular Webber Academy senior, Caroline, permits her new friend and classmate Waverly, an autistic, gay, scholarship student, to attend the annual Masquerade Ball disguised as her; but the evening becomes a nightmare when there is a global blackout, and Waverly and her friends discover what the school's dean and top donors really have planned.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara Infantil y Juvenil
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Sujeta tu paraguas y acumula una buena provisión de bombones: Judy Moody y Stink se enfrentan a una nueva aventura. Judy, Stink y toda la familia Moody se refugian con latas de frijoles y baterías, listos para esperar a que pase la tormenta. Pero además del fuerte viento y las lluvias torrenciales, el huracán Elmer arroja fantasmas, ardillas y hasta extraterrestres. ¡Qué miedo! Justo cuando las cosas no podrían ponerse más extrañas, las...
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Publishers Weekly Best Book 2021 Young Adult Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love to this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming novel that shines a bright light through the dark. A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the city is thrown into confusion, a different kind of electricity sparks A first meeting. Long-time friends. Bitter exes. And...
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