An Audio Book in Review: As Easy As Falling Off The Face Of The Earth

As Easy As Falling Off The Face Of The Earth By: Lynne Rae Perkins
Fiction: YA, adventure

This is the story of Ry a 15 year old boy who is taking the train to summer camp while his parents are on vacation and his grandfather is watching the dogs in his family's new home. On the way he learns that camp is closed and gets off the train when it stops in the middle of nowhere Montana to call his family. The train starts up without him, and from there things start to go bad. By the time he gets to town he is missing a boot, has a nearly closed up black eye, a bloody nose, is hungry, dehydrated and cell phone is dead. Unknown to him the rest of his family are also experiencing a series of improbable events leaving Ry on his own.

This book is a fun adventer novel with constant action and bits of humor mixed in to make it not seam as over the top as the story is. For example, I love the part were he thinks about how he is getting a ride to a local restaurant after being offered a mint as taking a ride with a stranger after getting candy from them as novels like this often includes people doing all those things your parents told you not to, with out any thought to that.

7 Cds 7.75 Hours