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.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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It was not to be a long flight, the trip to grandfather's. And they had plenty of time. Why not fly over the Petrified Forest, Burr suggested to his father, who was piloting their small plane. So the two went off their flight plan; and when the accident happened, when Burr's father had a heart attack and died, after bringing the plane to a landing in a desert draw, there was no way anyone would know where to look for them.