Safe by Susan Shaw – 13 year old Tracy is attacked and brutally beaten. The person that Tracy had depended on to keep her safe before was her deceased mom. The focus of this short gripping book is how Tracy finds a positive path to heal her broken spirit. It was a good read.
Finding Daddy by Louise Plummer – Mira can’t understand why her mother is mum about the father she doesn’t remember. Nearly 16 years old, she decides to find him herself.
The result is horrific. A real page turner even though
I knew early on why her mother didn’t tell her. - Cheryl
Ada Blackjack, a true story of survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven - An Alaskan Native American in 1921 joins an all male expedition to a remote island off of Russia as their seamstress. The group faces many hardships; its main goal a sham. One explorer had been on another disastrous expedition organized by the same lecturer/adventurer several years before (Ice Master –The doomed 1913 voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven). This time he was not so lucky. She alone survived on the island – to be rescued in August, 1923. Both are gripping adventure stories – very well written. Both books really sparked my interest about survival in extreme conditions.
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