I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Avalanche! by Terry Lynn Johnson Series: Survivor Diaries #2
Published by Clarion Books on 02 January 2018
Genres: Adventure
Pages: 112
Format: E-Arc
Source: Netgalley
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A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries them in icy white. It will take all of their knowledge and grit to survive.
With seventeen years of hands-on experience and training in remote areas, survival expert Terry Lynn Johnson ( Ice Dogs; Sled Dog School ) creates on-the-edge-of-your-seat storytelling featuring the real skills that kids need to survive a disaster. This page-turner with illustrations includes survival tips from the National Avalanche Center and U.S. Forest Service. You could have a better chance of surviving a real-life avalanche after reading this book!
Stay calm. Stay smart. Survive.
Back when I found this book on Netgalley, I seriously thought of the film “Alive” and assumed that this would be on the same vein as the film, only middle grade version. But I was wrong. There were no dramas, no human cannibalism, and perverse misery. There’s only practicality and determination to live.
Avalanche was entertaining to some extent but you have to accept the fact that it’s a book designed for Middle Grade and it’s really short. In my own opinion, it’s more of a guide or compilation of tips on how to survive in the event of an avalanche and with the threat of bears and wolverines up in the peaks.
There’s a little backgrounder of our twin protagonists, Ashley and Ryan, but nothing too substantive to make you invested in them. I suggest that you read this when you just want to pass the time or about to go skiing and looking for more Skiing Safety tips.