Copyright: 2009
Dylan's scout troop has decided to go on a camping trip, and Dylan is pretty excited to go. until he remembers that Louie, an older boy is the newest member of the troop. Dylan has had a past run in with Louie and tries not to remember it when he finds out that Louie will be going on the trip.
Then a few days after the troop has set up a large earthquake (7.2 they found out later) scatters the troop in the early morning, and Dylan and Louie are forced to team up and help the rest of their troop to safety.
The most amazing part of this story is that it really happened to scout troop 77 in Hawaii. Although in the book nobody from their troop or the near-by camping horseback riders was killed, in the real event a passing fisherman (on his boat) was never found and one of the adult leaders was killed in a rock slide made by an aftershock.
Since this book was based on a real event, the author wrote the story just like the it but nobody died in his version. This book was written mostly from Dylan's point of view and he included a lot of dialogue from the other characters so you got to hear their experience too, not just Dylan's.
I liked this book even though Graham based it on a real event so, he I guess he didn't have to think up a lot of the story. The book was very vivid especially when the earthquake came it was like watching a movie inside of my head!
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I had no idea that this book was based on a real life diaster until I read about it in the back of the book.
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