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A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet. Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan are skiing with their parents in Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains where there is a ground-shaking rumble. Unstable snow rushes downhill and buries them in icy white. It will take all of their knowledge and grit to survive. With seventeen years of hands-on experience and training in remote areas, survival expert Terry Lynn Johnson (Ice Dogs; Sled Dog School) creates on-the-edge-of-your-seat storytelling featuring the real skills that kids need to survive a disaster. This page-turner with illustrations includes survival tips from the National Avalanche Center and U.S. Forest Service. You could have a better chance of surviving a real-life avalanche after reading this book! Stay calm. Stay smart. Survive.
About the Author
Terry Lynn Johnson writes middle grade adventures based on her experiences living in the wilds of northern Ontario, Canada. She might have fallen through ice a time or two, been dragged by a dog team, blown up a wood stove, been attacked by a sloth (slowly) , accidentally sprayed a crowd with muskrat glands, and chased a bear with a chainsaw. She owned eighteen sled dogs, and currently works as a Conservation Officer for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.Ice Dogs, February 4, 2014,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ABA Best Children's Books of 2014Sled Dog School, October 3, 2017, HMH, Bank Street Books Best Books of 2018Falcon Wild, September 19, 2017, Charlesbridge, Junior Library Guild SelectionSurvivor Diaries, Overboard! July 2017, Cybils Award FinalistSurvivor Diaries, Avalanche! January 2, 2018 STARRED review from KirkusTerry lives in Whitefish Falls, Ontario. Visit her at www.terrylynnjohnson.com
