Sarah, who is a new scholarship student at Glades Academy,
has gone a science field trip to the Everglades. She thought that she might be able to make
some friends if she tried to participate in something extra-curricular, but the
students on the trip are rude and unfriendly.
After they arrive at their cabins, Sarah meets a boy named Andy, who is
friendly. He invites her to come with
him the next day for a ride into the Everglades on an airboat. So, the next day, Sarah pretends to be sick
so she doesn’t have to go with the group and then heads out with Andy. They have a pretty good time, except that
Sarah is scared of almost everything, and when Andy lets her drive the boat,
she accidentally runs over a duck nest, killing one of the baby ducks and
frightening the mother away. She insists
on taking the other baby with them. They
arrive at a cabin where Andy planned to have a picnic lunch. After lunch, when they get ready to go back,
Andy realizes that he has left the plug out of the boat and the boat has
sunk. The only way out is to walk, which
will take them a couple of days, but if they wait it could be more than a week
before anyone finds them and they have no food or water. This was a really good adventure story, and
also a nice coming of age type story. A
lot of teens would like it.
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