Trapped by Michael Northrop5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Genre:Realistic Fiction Grades:8 - 11 Lexile Measure. Northrop's solid storytelling should keep readers rapt. Review: Trapped by Michael Northrop by Ann-Katrina Title:Trapped Author:Michael Northrop ISBN:978-054521-0126 Story Length:240 pages Genre:Young Adult/Psychological Thriller Back Cover of Trapped The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. Item :NTS521013 ISBN13:9780545210133 Format:Paperback Book Pages:240 Publisher:Scholastic Inc. He tells readers early on that "not all of us made it," so the surprise is less that things keep going wrong than how they do. The problems are expected-darkness, infighting, jealousy, illness, hunger-but conveyed with a tight sense of realism through Scotty's narrative voice. As the snow piles up to over 10 feet, the captive students do their best to survive and wait for help. They're already out of cellphone range, and when the power goes out, all hope of communicating with the outside world is lost. ![]() By the time they realize that the storm is too strong for their parents to pick them up, they're trapped along with four other students (and a teacher, who quickly leaves to seek help). Although Tattawa High School in rural New England closes early for snow, basketball player Scotty and fellow sophomores Jason and Pete stay late to work on Jason's go-kart. ![]() Northrop (Gentlemen) offers a gripping disaster story that, for its reliance on luck and coincidences to set things up, is no less exciting. ![]()
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