High Adventure
from Scholastic
A 1996 ALA Best
Book for Young
Adults
A NY Public
Library Best Book
for the Teenage
Nominated for
the 1998 Garden
State Teen Book Awards
Nominated for
Wyoming's Soaring
Eagle YA Book Award
Nominated for
the Heartland Award
for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Nominated for
the Black-eyed
Susan Award from the Maryland Educational Media Organization
Named to the Indiana
Practitioners'
List of Recommended Young Adolescent Books
Recommended on
the Houghton Mifflin
web site Education Place: Books of Survival
Recommended by
SciWeb Diabetes
Information web site
Recommended by
the Volusia Medical
Resource Network Bookstore: a project of the American Diabetes
Association
Recommended by
the Unofficial
Diabetes Bookstore
Recommended in Booktalking
Off The Shelf: Books for Older Readers, a web site maintained by
the
Champaign, Illinois, Public Library
A recommended
book for teens
on the web site maintained by the
Palm Beach, Florida, Public Library
Listed in Tales
of Survival,
a web page maintained by the Kent, Michigan, Public Library
A recommended book
for young readers
by the Rogers Library of
the University of Arkansas
***
"The ultimate
YA survival novel...
The boys and readers alike are plunged into a terrifying race for
survival.
Next stop, movie rights!" --Booklist
stared review
"Interesting,
multidimensional
characters... Readers...should revel in this survival tale."--School
Library Journal "
"A heroic tale
of endurance."
--Kirkus Review
"Old fashioned,
Paulsenesque
adventure...read it to share the triumph of an ordinary person." --Bulletin
for the Center for Children's Books
"A page-turner,
very fluid and
realistic."--ALAN Review
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