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Slide or Die
ALAN Review, Summer 2006 by Prescott, Ruth
Slide or Die by Todd Strasser Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster) 2006, 198 pp., $6.99 Fiction/Adventure ISBN: 978-1-4169-0581-3
Seventeen-year-old Kennin is new to Las Vegas; a friend he had made at work invited him to go for a ride in a hot GTO. As they drove out of the city toward the mountains, Kennin discovered that the driver with a bottle of tequila was an ex-con who had stolen the GTO.
Kennin's group meets up with a group of drivers who compete at a very high rate of speed, sliding the back wheels around turns. The stolen GTO has a tracking device, so the police can locate the car. When the police arrive, Kennin is forced to take the GTO down the mountain road against a very experienced driver.
The manga-style drawings will attract reluctant readers and students interested in cars. Slide or Die is appropriate for middle schoolers, although the target audience is probably high school.
Ruth Prescott
Manhattan, KS
Copyright Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English Summer 2006
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