A thirteen-year-old girl on a family vacation becomes stranded alone in the wilderness when the family's GPS leads them astray. A compelling survival story for ages 10 to 14, for fans of Hatchet and The Skeleton Tree.
Francie and her parents are on a spring road trip: driving from British Columbia, Canada, to hike in the Grand Canyon. When a shortcut leads them down an old logging road, disaster strikes. Their truck hits a rock and wipes out the oil pan. They are stuck in the middle of nowhere. Francie can't help feeling a little excited -- she'd often imagined how she'd survive if she got stranded in the bush, and now here they are. But will her survival skills -- building fires, gathering dandelion leaves and fir needles for tea -- be enough when hours stretch into days?
What a fun read! This book is full of suspense and I found myself eager to finish the book so I could finally know how it ended. I feel like this is almost a more...delicate, friendly version of Hatchet (note: it's been a LONG time since I read that book).
I wanted to give it five stars, but certain aspects of this book have left with an incomplete feeling. The flashbacks were also a bit hard to recognize at first at certain times.
Even so, I highly recommend this book to those who enjoy suspense, survival, and wilderness adventure.
