Content: G (mild danger)
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - OPTIONAL
APPEALS TO: SOME
Three cousins 12yo Owen, 11yo Vivian, and 8yo Amy are on a camping trip with their parents. The one night they are allowed to camp alone, an earthquake strikes and they are cut-off from the parents’ campsite. The trio will have to go the long way around, confronting danger in the forest, but also the emotional baggage they are each dealing with from personal traumas.
Nesbet tries to do too much here. Besides having the danger from 3 pre-teens being alone in the wilderness, she injects a magical realism through the kids’ personal stories - it would have been enough to have one of them with emotional turmoil - all 3 is overload. I was distracted and then bored.
All of the characters are white.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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