As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth

by Lynne Rae Perkins Narrated by Chris Sorensen

Overview

Train.

Car.

Plane.

Boat.

Feet.

He'll get there.

Won't he?

Editorial Reviews

New York Times Book Review

A rich, eventful, and extremely entertaining summer road trip.

Horn Book (starred review)

Wherever Perkins’s warm, funny, wise narrative goes is where a reader wants to be.

Booklist (starred review)

ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice “Relentlessly entertaining…an absolute delight.

Horn Book

"Wherever Perkins’s warm, funny, wise narrative goes is where a reader wants to be."

Booklist

ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice "Relentlessly entertaining…an absolute delight."

Kirkus Reviews

It's easy to fall off the face of the Earth, as the affable 15-year-old Ry discovers when he misses his camp-bound train somewhere in Montana. It wouldn't be so traumatic if his parents weren't adrift in the Caribbean, his grandpa in Wisconsin hadn't plunged into a sinkhole and all potentially helpful cell phones weren't either dead, out of range or stolen by a green-hued jungle monkey. Ry's efforts to get somewhere from the middle of nowhere form the core of this poetic, ebullient odyssey, Perkins's first novel since her Newbery-winning Criss Cross (2005). Three tales in three-plus locales (and the occasional dog-centric comic strip) weave a playfully inventive, even suspenseful narrative peppered with colorful characters and close calls. Details of, say, a cactus lamp or a fly's flight are vividly and often humorously described in a fresh, intimate, mostly third-person voice, frequently interrupted with almost conversational attempts to clarify and refine observations. A long, immensely enjoyable, curiously comforting ramble through an absurd-but-benign world, tellingly filed by the Library of Congress under "Adventure and adventurers-Fiction," "Accidents-Fiction" and "Luck-Fiction." (Fiction. 12 & up)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173804471
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	11/15/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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