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Ann Burden is a teenage girl who believes she is the last survivor of a nuclear war. Since her family's disappearance on a search expedition, she has lived alone on her farm in a small valley spared from radiation poisoning. A year after the war, a stranger in a radiation-proof suit approaches her valley. Afraid he might be dangerous, Ann hides in a cave and does not warn the man when he mistakenly bathes in a radioactive stream. When he falls ill, her fear of being alone forever leads her to reveal herself to help him. She discovers that the stranger is John Loomis, a chemist who helped design a prototype radiation-proof "safe-suit" at an underground lab near Ithaca, New York. Ann moves him into her house and fantasizes about eventually marrying him. The valley is approximately 4 miles long, from Burden Hill in the north to an S-shaped pass in the south called "the gap". The largest of its two streams, Burden Creek, is radioactive because its source is outside the valley. It runs parallel to the road from north to south and exits the valley through the gap. A smaller stream originates from a deep spring on an eastern hillside and feeds a small lake with fish that provide a food source for Ann. The stream then meanders south and joins Burden Creek. Much of the valley is made up of woodlands. Coogan, Michael David (2009). A brief introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in its context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983011-4.

Coogan, Michael D. A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pg. 353 The story of Z for Zachariah is all about survival in the face of nuclear annihilation. Young heroine Ann Burden finds herself quite possibly the only human being left on earth after the nuclear holocaust. Left to her own devices for survival in the lonely post-apocalyptic world of Amish country somewhere along the northern Atlantic coast, Ann manages to find not just the means to survive but the will. And then a man in a strange green plastic suit reveals that Ann is not necessarily the only survivor. It is revealed that, as a child, Ann had owned a Biblical ABC book which mentioned the prophet Zachariah. She remembers thinking that if Adam (who was used for the letter "A") was the first man on earth, Zachariah (who represented the letter "Z") must be the last, and likens this to her status as the last survivor of the war. Eventually, Anne offers a compromise to share the valley. Loomis suggests she should act “more like an adult and less like a school girl”, implying she should submit to sleeping with him and stop being ridiculous. He steals the keys to the tractor, withholds supplies and finally shoots her, forcing her to run for her life.Ellie is the primary witness in an assault case in You Against Me. Faced with a moral dilemma, what will she do?

O'Brien, Sally M. [Sally M. Conly]. "About Robert C. O'Brien". The Horn Book Magazine (August 1972): 349–51.This was the first novel I read as a teenager that utterly transported me. I’d never realised books could do that. It literally took me away from home and put me somewhere else. I clearly remember having to put the book down at meal times and force myself to journey home. I’d look at my family over the dinner table and think, “You’ve no idea where I’ve been…” Petterson, A. R., Behold Your King: The Hope for the House of David in the Book of Zechariah (LHBOTS 513; London: T&T Clark, 2009).

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