Mike Mullin's Ashfall

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Mike Mullin’s novel Ashfall illustrates a teenage boy named Alex Halprin and his experience during an explosion of the Yellowstone super volcano with Darla Edmunds to survive its aftermath. When the story begins, Alex is living in Cedar Falls, Iowa while his mother, father, and sister go to visit his uncle and family in Warren, Illinois. Alex hides with his neighbors, and then decides to try to find his parents in Warren. Target, a guy that tries to put a group together and is adept with an axe, tries to kill Alex with an axe but he barely escapes, and goes into the barn of the Edmunds, Darla and her mother, Gloria. They all help him back to health because of blood loss from wounds, and he assists them with their farm chores when he is healthy

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