Lost in a River of Grass is in the tradition of survival stories like Hatchet or On My Side of the Mountain, where the young protagonist finds herself as she struggles to survive in an unforgiving wilderness. In this case, the setting is the Everglades, and Sarah, the 13-year-old narrator, sneaks away from an overnight school field trip for what was supposed to be a quick airboat ride with Andy, a boy who lives in the preserve. Naturally, disaster strikes and they]re forced to walk out of the Everglades (they've got a knife, a small amount of Gatorade and some suspicious Spam). The author also skillfully layers in a story about overcoming prejudice. Sarah is black and Andy is the son of a Confederate-flag waving self-described redneck.
This book is awesome. So far they got to a cabin and are eating the food. I am almost done. It is unbearable. My favorite part is when Sarah swims across and tells Andy to come and he almost drown.
ReplyDeleteThis book is not very interesting to me. I do like the part where they find out the boat tipped over. I had predicted that some survival situation would occur in this book.
ReplyDeleteI like this book so far and Sarah and Andy are lost in the everglades.
ReplyDeleteI like this book so far Andy and Sarah found the levee which is what they've been looking for and are going to get help I have to read the end.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you can see a purpose in finishing, Bryant. Think you can get another book read in a few days? Meet your goal? What do you have going on after school that would get in the way of meeting your goal?
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