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Test Your Survival Knowledge Program
What started as a program based around the popular book series I Survived… by Lauren Tarshis turned into a test your survival knowledge and game. We ended up with 15 kids ranging from 3rd – 8th grade. We started our program with 20 multiple choice questions displayed on the big screen…
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Grasshopper Jungle
I reviewed an ARC copy of this book and let me tell you, I wanted to put it down for fear of nightmares with 6-foot tall praying mantises, but I couldn’t it was so interesting! Austin, our narrator, and self-proclaimed historian is a confused teenager in love with the girl-next-door…
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Hostage Three
Hostage Three by Nick Lake is a thrilling story of human survival in an unexpected situation. Amy is almost 18, still grieves for her mother, detests her new stepmother and has no desire to spend the next 12 months on a yacht sailing around the world with her father and…
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Endangered
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer is the story of Sophie a half Congolese, half American girl who is visiting her mother on a bonobo (a type of ape) sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo when she becomes the surrogate mother for an infant bonobo, named Otto. When an armed revolution breaks out across…
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The Raft
I’ll be honest, this was another one of those books that piqued my interest just by the cover art. I recently read Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, a true story about a man whose B-24 bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, afterward he spent 47 days floating on a raft…