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Scholastic Trade (1992), 201 pages
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Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a plane crash on her family's property, and the experience changes her life forever.
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LibraryThing member KenzieL
This book is about Patrick and Heidi. Heidi can do alot of things but she dont know what to do when a plane crashes into her backyard. This book is fantastic and everyone should read it!!!!!
LibraryThing member sports-star
In this book, Heidi is a rich kid who cant do anything until a plane crashes in her yard. At first she is stunned, not knowing what to do. Then she goes inside to call for help. Then she runs back outside to help. Many people are dead and just as many are hurt. When the rescue sqad comes, they have
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people from other states to help them. In this battle to stay alive, Heidi experiances things she never could have imagined, including falling in love with a boy. This is a pretty good book filled with action. Show Less
LibraryThing member midkid88
This was a second time reading it because I remembered the title from years ago but not all that happened. The book covers about 9 hours and jumps from person to person to see many different view points but mainly focuses on Patrick and Heidi. While Heidi is out walking her dog in a freezing rain,
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she is stunned when a 747 comes crashing down in her rose garden. Called to action, she finds out what she is capable physically and emotionally. This was a great book and I ended up hating someone and crying at the fate of others. Show Less
LibraryThing member zeborah
I'm not, typically, a fan of the kind of disaster narrative that introduces you one by one to all the characters to make you like them first or whatever: I tend to prefer my fiction to focus on one or two folk with a strong arc of some kind.
But once the disaster gets going it's really clear that
(The author even manages to end the book after the first wave of dealing with things without me feeling all anxious about how even worse in so many respects is the long trudge of recovery afterwards. I do however desperately want Darienne exposed as publically as she stole the limelight, so that wherever she goes afterwards she's instantly recognised and scorned. Very petty of me.)
But once the disaster gets going it's really clear that
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the arc is about the disaster, and everyone pulling together to deal with it, and that's a kind of story that gets me all in the feels, and it's told here so very very realistically and well. Many feels were had.(The author even manages to end the book after the first wave of dealing with things without me feeling all anxious about how even worse in so many respects is the long trudge of recovery afterwards. I do however desperately want Darienne exposed as publically as she stole the limelight, so that wherever she goes afterwards she's instantly recognised and scorned. Very petty of me.)
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LibraryThing member Andy_DiMartino
Really enjoyed this YA novel showing the complexities of relationships during a disaster
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201