From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8 After their plane crashes in the Arizona desert and his father dies, 12-year-old Burr Henderson treks through the desert with little food or water to find help. Readers are taken along on Burr's walk as he learns not to fight nature but to listen to the animals, the wind and the land, as he was taught by an Apache foreman on his father's ranch. He faces snakes, hunger, thirst, perilous terrain and a cougar along his way. The Apache whom Burr eventually stumbles upon explains that the journey has been his Medicine Walk, the Apache rite of adolescence. The quick pace, conversational style, popular theme and short chapters will make this a good choice for reluctant readers, as well as those looking for non-demanding survival stories. Cindy Dobrez, Oak Lawn Public Library, Ill.
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