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Ashfall by Mike Mullin6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() On top of it, she’s smart and tough and I loved her no-nonsense attitude. She loves tools and machinery and she uses them– along with a lot of ingenuity– to solve problems and start rebuilding society. The character is Darla and she uses her brilliant engineering and agriculture skills to make life better for the survivors. One of the main reasons why this series is so special is that Mike created a lead character who is a young female engineering dynamo. I had the opportunity to meet him at our local library in Belmont, MA a few years back, and he is not only a gifted writer (and a super nice person!) but he really cares about how his writing impacts his readers, especially teens. I’m a big fan of Mike Mullin’s Ashfall series and the author himself. The book follows Alex– an Iowan teen, who, pre-disaster, likes nothing better than to play computer games, and Darla– a young woman Alex meets up with along his trek to find his parents in Illinois. In Ashfall, the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in the Midwest, and what ensues is a multi-year survival story. ![]() Need a book recommendation for your teen that delivers action, adventure and clever tech contraptions? Then pick up the Ashfall series by Mike Mullin and your teen will thank you! ![]()
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