Escapes!

by Laura Scandiffio

Book Overview

Ten nail-biting stories of real-life escapes. In 1979, the streets of Iran's capital city, Tehran, turned ugly. Six Americans caught in the uprising found protection at the Canadian embassy. Through... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550378236
• ISBN13: 9781550378238
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Annick Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Escape the Boring Novels and Buy This Masterpiece

Most historical true stories although containing interesting facts are usually quite boring for most of the book. Not so with this non fiction novel, which reads like a fiction thriller, educating you on historical events along the way. Inside you will find ten stories of how someone either escaped from captives themselves or helped someone else to. All of the prisoners in this book are innocent or extremely hard done by for petty crimes so you are not reading about the escapes of serial killers or violent criminals. Instead you are reading how people being held as slaves or in medieval castle dungeons, behind walls, as prisoners of war or from a crashing plane manage to beat the odds and obtain freedom. I expected an average book and only really read this because I couldn't find anything good in the fiction section but was pleasantly surprised to find a masterpiece. Great book, I'll definitely check out others by the author.