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Title: Free Fall
Subtitle: Barclay Family Adventures
Author: Ed Hanson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-04-09
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
The police are baffled by the jewel thieves' seemingly impossible escape. Aaron accidentally finds important clues at the Thunderbird Skydiving School.
©2005 Ed Hanson; (P)2009 Saddleback
Members Reviews:
Brilliant Concept, Very Close To Brilliant Execution, Bk. 16
Ed Hanson and Saddleback Educational Publishing have come up with a brilliant concept for solving a very serious problem: the great decline in reading among today's students. Their solution? Put out readers that are essentially suspense-filled or mystery-filled juvenile series books like the famous Tom Swift, Nancy Drew, and Hardy Boys series of old.
This confronts both of the major problems with more traditional readers: if they are not mind-numbingly dull, they are excruciatingly didactic, cramming some important "teachings" whether moral, religious, or (these days) politically correct down the throats of children so hard as to turn them off of reading for good.
In this volume Ed Hanson again puts in an excellent effort that steers well clear of the "rut" of travel disaster survival. A daring and successful jewel robbery begins this story of the Barclays taking up skydiving with nary a plane crash in sight! The only nit I have to pick involves the abject stupidity required of our brilliant jewel thieves in leaving the first clue where Aaron can stumble upon it, but otherwise it is a tour de force!
Plus, for what they are intended to be, reading textbooks, they are wonderful. The fact that children who learn to read better and to love reading from these books may still find them skimpy fare for pleasure reading is not entirely bad, assuming their teachers quickly move them on to bigger and better things in the school library or the bookstore if necessary.
The previous book in the series isThe Floodgates (Barclay Family Adventure Ser. 2, Bk. 5), and the next book in the series isIron Mountain (Barclay Family Adventure Ser. 2, Bk. 7).