Can You Survive the Jungle?: An Interactive Survival Adventure

by Matt Doeden

Overview

You're lost amid dangerous, unseen predators after your plane crashes in the Amazon jungle. By parachuting out of the plane, you landed safely, but yore all alone with little food and water. Do you, Take off in search of rescue? Build a camp and try to signal rescuers? Head toward where you believe the downed plane and your pilot may have landed? Experience the life or death dilemmas of being lost in the jungle. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety or to doom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429673495
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Series:	You Choose: Survival Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	201,254
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	650L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Matt Doeden is a freelance author and editor from Minnesota. He’s written numerous children’s books on sports, music, current events, the military, extreme survival, and much more. His books Sandy Koufax (Twenty-First Century Books, 2006) and Tom Brady: Unlikely Champion (Twenty-First Century Books, 2011) were Junior Library Guild selections. Doeden began his career as a sports writer before turning to publishing. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.

Table of Contents

About Your Adventure 5

Chapter 1 Lost in the Jungle 7

Chapter 2 On the Move 13

Chapter 3 Making Camp 39

Chapter 4 In Search of Maria 67

Chapter 5 Surviving the Jungle 101

Real Survivors 106

Survival Quiz 108

Read More 109

Internet Sites 109

Glossary 110

Bibliography 111

Index 112

Editorial Reviews

These books are going to be popular with your young readers, especially the boys. The books describe a variety of choices to a disaster. If the reader makes the wrong choices, they are dead. A benefit is that the books teach survival skills, and each book describes a different type of environment. These books will be popular with children who are adventurous, plus they provide mental exercise for the reader. Each book provides three story paths and contains a survival guide related to the topic, Real Survivors, and Survival Quiz sections. Recommended.

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