Getting Air – Dan Gutman

This book is about 3 young boys named Jimmy, David, and Henry. It is summer time and they are on there way to California via an airplane where they will be going to the X games: a major skating event. Skateboarding is their lives main interest.  Jimmy has a little sister name Julia and she loves to read books. When Jimmy was sitting with his buddies, an old lady named Mildred asked him to get her bag. Jimmy did and asked where Mildred was going. She was on her way to a knitting convention in California with all of her pals. Jimmy just sat down and saw a REALLY CUTE flight attendant named Arcadia. Jimmy and his buddies were just looking at her and all of a sudden they heard yelling and screaming in the airplane. THEY WERE BEING HIJACKED BY TERRORISTS!!! Jimmy and his buddies decided to take action and they succeeded. They killed all of the terrorists and threw them outside.  Everything was back to normal except that THEY JUST GOT HIJACKED BY TERRORISTS AND THE PLANE WAS FALLING WITH NO PILOT AND NO ONE ON THE AIRPLANE KNeW HOW TO GUIDE AN AIRPLANE!!! Jimmy took the wheel and crashed the airplane between two trees. Hours later Jimmy finally woke up. He woke up and forgot what had happened to him. He looked for survivors. He was relieved that all of his friends were fine and his sister was fine. He also saw that Mildred and Arcadia survived too. All of a sudden, his summer is about finding food, shelter, and water. I think this book will appeal to both boys and girls. If you enjoy adventure books, this is the perfect book for you. It is only about 232 pages long and I think the end is very unique and clever. I hope you take the time to read this book.

David G.

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