As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth

by Lynne Rae Perkins

Overview

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Train.

Car.

Plane.

Boat.

Feet.

He'll get there.

Won't he?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062001405
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/27/2010
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
Lexile:	730L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Lynne Rae Perkins was awarded the Newbery Medal for Criss Cross. She is the author of five other novels—All Alone in the Universe, As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, Nuts to You, Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea and Violet & Jobie in the Wild. Lynne Rae Perkins has also written and illustrated several acclaimed picture books, including Frank and Lucky Get Schooled; The Broken Cat; Snow Music; Pictures from Our Vacation; The Cardboard Piano, Wintercake and The Museum of Everything. The author lives with her family in northern Michigan. www.lynnerae.com

Lynne Rae Perkins was awarded the Newbery Medal for Criss Cross. She is the author of five other novels—All Alone in the Universe, As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, Nuts to You, Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea, and Violet & Jobie in the Wild. Lynne Rae Perkins has also written and illustrated several acclaimed picture books, including Frank and Lucky Get Schooled, The Broken Cat, Snow Music, Pictures from Our Vacation, The Cardboard Piano, Wintercake, and The Museum of Everything. The author lives with her family in northern Michigan. lynnerae.com

Editorial Reviews

ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice “Relentlessly entertaining…an absolute delight.” — Booklist (starred review)

“Wherever Perkins’s warm, funny, wise narrative goes is where a reader wants to be.” — Horn Book (starred review)

“A long, immensely enjoyable, curiously comforting ramble through an absurd-but-benign world.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“[Perkins’s] observations and turns of phrase are as unexpected and delightful as the travels she weaves together.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A rich, eventful, and extremely entertaining summer road trip.” — New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

Wherever Perkins’s warm, funny, wise narrative goes is where a reader wants to be.

Horn Book (starred review)

ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice “Relentlessly entertaining…an absolute delight.

Booklist (starred review)

A rich, eventful, and extremely entertaining summer road trip.

New York Times Book Review

"Wherever Perkins’s warm, funny, wise narrative goes is where a reader wants to be."

Horn Book

ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice "Relentlessly entertaining…an absolute delight."

Booklist

It's easy to fall off the face of the Earth, as the affable 15-year-old Ry discovers when he misses his camp-bound train somewhere in Montana. It wouldn't be so traumatic if his parents weren't adrift in the Caribbean, his grandpa in Wisconsin hadn't plunged into a sinkhole and all potentially helpful cell phones weren't either dead, out of range or stolen by a green-hued jungle monkey. Ry's efforts to get somewhere from the middle of nowhere form the core of this poetic, ebullient odyssey, Perkins's first novel since her Newbery-winning Criss Cross (2005). Three tales in three-plus locales (and the occasional dog-centric comic strip) weave a playfully inventive, even suspenseful narrative peppered with colorful characters and close calls. Details of, say, a cactus lamp or a fly's flight are vividly and often humorously described in a fresh, intimate, mostly third-person voice, frequently interrupted with almost conversational attempts to clarify and refine observations. A long, immensely enjoyable, curiously comforting ramble through an absurd-but-benign world, tellingly filed by the Library of Congress under "Adventure and adventurers-Fiction," "Accidents-Fiction" and "Luck-Fiction." (Fiction. 12 & up)

Kirkus Reviews