Bell, William. Death wind.Orca, Soundings. 92p. c2002.1-55143-215-3. $7.95. J With three failing grades, a failed relationship and a missed period eclipsing her future, Allie can't see any way out of trouble but to escape her surroundings. After pinning a goodbye note to her pillow, Allie takes off, leaving a self-involved ex-boyfriend, bad grades and bickering bick·er intr.v. bick·ered, bick·er·ing, bick·ers 1. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See Synonyms at argue. 2. parents behind. She heads off to the Ontario Skateboarding skateboarding Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean Championship with her best friend, champion skateboarder Razz, but life for Allie doesn't become any easier. A skateboarder named "Slammer A worm that caused a billion dollars worth of damage on the Internet on January 25, 2003. Slammer infected computers all over the Internet by generating random IP addresses and causing the computer's buffer to overflow with its own instructions that replicate itself and start the process " has it in for her, and she still hasn't gotten her period. Just when Allie believes it can't get any worse, dark storm clouds appear on the horizon, followed by a "death wind." Allie returns home to find her town devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. . In an effort to help with relief efforts, Allie finds strength inside herself that she never knew she had. While neither developed enough in character nor detailed enough in plot, Death Wind proves a quick and easy read with enough momentum to keep readers turning the pages--a good choice for the reluctant reader. It provides an interesting glimpse at Canada's May 1985 Barrie tornado tornado, dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops below a heavy cumulonimbus cloud mass and extends toward the earth. The funnel twists about, rises and falls, and where it reaches the earth causes great destruction. from inside the "eye of the storm" and ultimately, a personal reconciliation and hopeful resolution that one can only wish actually happens in real life. Lynne Remick, Freelance Book Reviewer, Nesconset, NY |
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