Survivor Diaries: Dust Storm! by Terry Lynn Johnson, 119 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. $10
Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content: PG; Violence: G.
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Two sixth graders are on a school geocaching trip when one of them slips out of the van and starts heading into the desert to get a head start. The other follows and they are soon taken over by a dust storm. The dust storm disorients them and they must find their way out of the desert.
This book delivers what it claims - a simple survival story without a lot of extras. The writing is kind of bland but they story is captivating. There is also a friendship lesson in the story of survival as the two friends explore why they have recently grown apart.
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
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