02443cam a2200373 4500 547207312 TxAuBib 20140909120000.0 131016s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307917485 library ed. 0307917487 library ed. 9780307917454 retail ed. 0307917452 retail ed. RHA3234 Random House Audio (OCoLC)861206877 BTCTA eng BTCTA WIM TEFBT TEF TxAuBib Bohjalian, Chris, 1960- Close your eyes, hold hands : a novel / by Chris Bohjalian. Unabridged. [Westminster, MD : Books on Tape, [2014] 7 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Read by Grace Blewer. "Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced to flee their homes in the Kingdom; rivers and forests are destroyed; and Emily feels certain that as the daughter of the most hated man in America, she is in danger. So instead of following the social workers and her classmates after the meltdown, Emily takes off on her own for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug dealer's apartment, and inventing a new identity for herself -- an identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson. When Emily befriends a young homeless boy named Cameron, she protects him with a ferocity she didn't know she had. But she still can't outrun her past, can't escape her grief, can't hide forever--and so she comes up with the only plan that she can" -- 20140909. Teenage girls Fiction Sound recordings. Orphans Fiction Sound recordings. Runaway teenagers Fiction Sound recordings. Homeless children Fiction Sound recordings. Audiobooks. Talking books. Bildungsromans. Blewer, Grace. TXCKT