Tornado (Book 8)

by Ed Hanson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562545590
• ISBN13: 9781562545598
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Concept, Very Close To Brilliant Execution, Bk. 8

"You haven't had a major tornado in over three years? Aren't you about due for a big one?" Aaron asked. Mr. Black looked amused. "Well, son, you just might be right," he answered. "Some folks call Cottonwood `Tornado Alley,' so maybe we are overdue." Then Mr. Black looked frightened. "Wait a minute. Aren't you the famous Barclay family? Whose trips always end in disaster?" After Aaron nodded, Mr. Black shuddered involuntarily, mumbled something about making sure that his tornado shelter was well stocked, and hurried away. OK, I made up that last part, but regular readers know what to expect when the Barclay family is on the scene! "But I don't think there's anything to worry about. We get tornado warnings a lot around here. But we don't get many tornadoes." I don't know about you, but I'M betting that SOMETIME during this adventure, they WILL! Ed Hanson and Saddleback Educational Publishing have come up with a brilliant concept for solving a very serious problem: the great decline in reading among today's students. Their solution? Put out readers that are essentially suspense-filled or mystery-filled juvenile series books like the famous Tom Swift, Nancy Drew, and Hardy Boys series of old. This confronts both of the major problems with more traditional readers: if they are not mind-numbingly dull, they are excruciatingly didactic, cramming some important "teachings" whether moral, religious, or (these days) politically correct down the throats of children so hard as to turn them off of reading for good. In this volume Ed Hanson delivers another good outing. Besides giving us a suspenseful story of tornado survival, we get to see Aaron discover girls! Plus, for what they are intended to be, reading textbooks, they are wonderful. The fact that children who learn to read better and to love reading from these books may still find them skimpy fare for pleasure reading is not entirely bad, assuming their teachers quickly move them on to bigger and better things in the school library or the bookstore if necessary. The previous book in the series is Mountain Blizzard (Barclay Family Adventure Ser., Bk. 7), and the next book in the series is The Pass (Barclay Family Adventure Ser., Bk. 9).