Review: A fun adventure book for young readers about getting by without technology
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
Young people and smartphones seem inseparable, so it's about time young adults get a book that explore life without a device. In a tale in which a group of early teens are deprived of their technology and dumped on a remote desert island, P.D. Quaver spins a story for young adults that works on all cylinders. As a novel for young people from late elementary to middle school, she manages to tell a unlikely story of a school which is supposed to help kids free themselves of technology and a group of kids who have been put in the school. The school is a front and the kids are kidnapped and taken to a desert island. Quaver pulls off the suspension of disbelief part perfectly, and the get that thrill going in the young reader. If you do get this book for a young person in their life, don't let it be lost on them that they are reading it on a Kindle. Perhaps Quaver will offer a paperback edition. That would make an extra emphasis on the life-without-technology-angle.