Product Description

Jodi Jamison, a performer in her uncle's circus, and Maximo Reyes, an aspiring lion tamer, escape from a circus train crash, only to find themselves on a narrow trestle undermined by rushing water!.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2573435 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: School & Library Binding

From School Library Journal
Grade 4-7Max and Jodi are traveling across the country with the circus. Max is an orphan who is apprenticing as a wild-animal trainer and Jodi is a 13-year-old equilibrist. Both of these dangerous jobs provide constant adventure, and the book flows well as it follows the nonstop action. Chapters are filled with very real situations such as stampeding elephants and death-defying high-wire acts, all of which are believably presented with plausible and (mostly) happy endings. The climax occurs when, on the road to a performance in a new town, the circus train causes the collapse of a trestle and falls into a river during a storm. The story deals with physical risks, but also the mental challenges of winning out over fear to do what one must. Exciting without being melodramatic, the book will have great appeal to all kids, especially as Max and Jodi emergealbeit predictablyas the heroes, winning the respect and admiration of the adults.Andrew Medlar, Chicago Public Library, IL
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Train Wreck is another great Survival! book.
Maximo Reyes is a Mexican orphan who joined a travelling circus and hopes to become a lion tamer. Thirteen year old Jodi Jamison and her father are performers in the same circus. Jodi used to be a high wire walker, but ever since her mother was badly injured after a fall last year, Jodi has lost her nerve. When their train wrecks one stormy night, both Max and Jodi must face their worst fears if they can even begin to hope to live through the most dangerous night of their young lives. I highly reccomend this book, along with the other Survival! books by Kathleen Duey and Karen A. Bale.

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These books are way awesome. They are so real and lifelike you feel like you are there. And they way they put fictional characters in famous or every day disaters is very intriguing. Duey and Bale had better keep writing these because no one wants to lose a good thing.

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Now I would like the world to know that everyone who likes to read should be reading these books. These books are da' best in da' world. I've read every single one of them and they got my 2 thumbs and five stars. Karen and Kathleen better be able to hear this, they also get my two thumbs up and my five stars. Keep writin'. The next book should be #12 Tornado, #13 Tsunami, and #14 Avalanche.