The Volcano Disaster
A Action, Adventure, Middle Grade book. Again, another pick for a book club....this time for the tweens....
Warren Spalding is sent to live with his grandmother after his father dies in an accident and his mother returns to college. There he discovers his grandfather's invention, an Instant Commuter. Accidentally, the boy is transported back in time to the slopes of Mt. St. Helens just minutes before its eruption in 1980. His new friend Betsy follows him in an effort to save him and both experience the whirlwind of ash that makes it difficult to breathe as well as move, the sharp earthquakes, and the frightening lightning. The fact that the two friends are working on a...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 144 pages
- ISBN: 9780671009687 / 671009680
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Warren is supposed to be working on a class project on Mt. St. Helens, but instead is busy working on his grandfather's Instant Commuter Again, another pick for a book club....this time for the tweens. It's a page turner and sure to grab a reluctant reader but it is NOT a book of great depth and character development. But who cares- the readers loved this book and we all decided we would certainly recommend it to another reader. This book is part historical fiction and... I thought that this book looked really silly when I picked it up, and I thought it was really, really sill after reading the first few chapters, but then it got better. The author could have just put the setting for when the volcano erupted, but instead she set it in the present and then the kid finds a time machine and goes back in...
