Juliane Koepcke

March 15, 2018
Grades 2-5 Direct, staccato sentences compose the text of this entry in the True Survival series (8 titles), which tells the story of Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon in 1971. Loh-Hagan explains how Juliane wound up in Peru (her parents were ornithologists), the circumstances leading to the plane crash ( The gas tank blew up. The wings fell off. The plane broke. It broke in the air ), and how Juliane managed to survive for 10 days. The short sentences and high-interest narrative are tailor-made for struggling readers, and vocabulary is defined both in the text and a glossary. Stock photos?only thematically linked to the text?don't add much, but kids in need of an easy entry point to reading nonfiction will likely find this handy.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)