Escape from Fire Mountain (Gary Paulsen world of adventure)

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Summary: Quashondra and Lauren's Escape From Fire Mountain
Review: A 10 year old girl, named Nikki, stays home by herself while her
parents go on a trip. Nikki rides her horse,Goblin,and finds
poachers who kill a ram and put the head on their car. Nikki tries to call the sheriff on the radio and she hears a boys voice crying for help because there's a fire and his sister is very hurt. Nikki goes to find the children at Dead Mans Drop. She finds them and gets on their Grandpas canoe to get away from the fire and to spend the night in the forest.The next morning, Nikki cries for help and she finds the poachers because herself and kids thought that they were fire fighters. Now, getting chased by them, she needs to go to her house to protect the kids. The poachers some how find them at the house. They sneak out and go to the river and find two men who help them. They call the sheriff and finally, James, Molly, and Nikki are saved.

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Summary: Matt and Chris's Escape Adventure
Review: Escape From Fire Mountain is about a girl named Nikki. She is home alone and she decides to go for a ride on her horse named Goblin. She was in the meadows and saw a ram. Bang! The ram fell over and it was shot. Then poachers dragged the ram to a group of trucks. Nikki smelled a fire and heard screaming. There in the woods was a boy named James. His sister Molly fell off the cliff and hurt her ankle. Later in the book, Nikki, James, and Molly see the poachers again. They chased them around and caught them. Will they get home and will Molly get better?

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Summary: Escape from Fire Mountain
Review: Escape from Fire Mountain
...Date Reviewed 9/24/02

The book is called Escape from Fire Mountain and the setting is in a mountainous place. I picked this book because it was very interesting and fun to read. This book is about a girl named Nikki who hears cries for help on a special radio but doesn't hear anyone responding. Nikki then decides to try and help what seems to be 2 kids trapped by smoke and flames. Flames aren't the only problem; there are also poachers that have no hesitation of killing them. So all through the rest of the book they are all just trying to out run the poachers. The characters in the story are Nikki, Joe, and Mary.This book teaches us that no matter what kind of trouble someone is in you always try and help them in any situation.

One of my most favorite events in the story is when all the kids were captured Nikki was forced to make a plan to get out of a tent. First she took a key and cut out a hole in the tent to get out. Then she took out all of the bullets out of their guns and then took the keys out of the truck and then through them in the woods. Then they made a run for Nikki's house to take cover. The one quote that I liked the best was when Nikki said to the kids don't worry; we'll get out of this because it made the kids feel a lot better. The characters that I didn't like were the poachers because the poachers want to kill Joe and Mary.

I like the book because of the way it keeps flowing very nicely, like it doesn't quick change to something different. I'm not quite sure what kind of person would like the book, but I am sure that kids within the age of like 10 and like 13 would like the book because of the way it reflects on every day life. I would recommend this book to a classmate because I liked the book and I think that they would to. I think that this book is important to read because it proves that kids can make a difference in the world to, not just adults.