When Juliane flew over Peru with her mother the plane encountered a wild thunderstorm and the plane exploded.  Juliane, still attached to her seat was flung out and plummeted 10, 000 feet into the Peruvian jungle.  Freaky, indeed.  She followed the #1 rule of survival which is follow the water courses.  There isn’t much here on her actual survival except for maggots in her wounds and that she was in shock for some of the 10 day ordeal that she spent floating down a river.   Most of the book is about her rescue, the rescue searching for more survivors, and her life between then and 27 years later when a film was made on the event.  The story jumps around between going back for the film and her post survival after being found and her family life after.  It is an interesting story with facts about the Amazon and how the journalists dialed in much of her story when she was found.  Didn’t really care for her relationship changing areas in regards to her father.  I’d give this about 3 stars.

I’ve decided to try and increase sales of my eBooks by reducing their prices. My firefighter mystery/suspense novels are $4.99 and my juvenile/chapter eBooks are $2.99. I also have a juvenile for .99 cents until June. Why? Well, everyone’s downloading the Hunger Games @ $5.00 so I have to compete and undercut Suzanne Collins. Sorry to do this dear, but here I come.
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American Scott Wallace, a Nat’l Geographic writer, accompanies an expedition trying to find one of the last primitive tribes in the deep Amazon, a dangerous one, the Arrow People. FUNAI the Brazilian native affairs dept. doesn’t contact them anymore and give them pots and stuff as they are too susceptible to disease just like in the old Pizarro days. They just try to find out where they are and demarcate their range. It’s good on several levels: Brazil’s attitudes to natives, history, wildlife, gold dredging, geography, and what it takes to mount such an exploration. Actually, it’s little different than how explorers tromped around the jungle a 100 years ago. Cellphones don’t work and the only modern convenience is a GPS. Good stuff if you like explorer stuff and real modern day adventure

I deleted the original review.  I'm hoping it was the title that attracted all the spam.  Dr. Seuss's first book was rejected twenty-four times. "too different from other juveniles".  Sales of his children's books have soared to 100 million.  So, I figured I'd take a swing at The Cat In The Hat as I do write juvenile/middle grade fiction, I have a grand daughter who appears to be a promising reader, and I wanted to see what all the fuss is about.  This book was written in 1957 and still has relevance today and probably will forever. To kids it's a fun romp with a rhyming cadence starring the crazy cat and Two Things who barge in unannounced. The cat and the Two Things wreck stuff in the house while trying to get two kids to have some fun.  Well, they don't have fun and get quite concerned.  That's all you're going to get from me as I won't issue a spoiler alert.