Genre:
Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction
Source: I
received a copy to facilitate my review. The opinions expressed here are my
own.
From
Goodreads:
Meet the Knights of the Square Table, San Francisco’s
all-star chess team.
On their way home from a tournament in Europe, their plane makes a forced landing on a remote island in the North Atlantic.
Part survival story, part crime novel with a twist, here’s what happens when six teenagers act on their optimism and attempt the impossible.
On their way home from a tournament in Europe, their plane makes a forced landing on a remote island in the North Atlantic.
Part survival story, part crime novel with a twist, here’s what happens when six teenagers act on their optimism and attempt the impossible.
My Thoughts:
Teri Kanefield is one of my new favorite
authors. I have loved everything I have read that she has written. The story
starts out very dramatic. The Knights of
the Square Table, a chess group is on a plane when it begins to experience
problems. The plane crashes on a snowy
island about 200 miles off course. The brief description of what people were
experiencing on the plane was so realistic that I felt I was on the plane as
well. The adults on this plane aren’t
much help. It is up to these chess
champs to keep them all alive until they are rescued. This is not the only problem they must solve.
There is a problem of global proportion they must work on as well. Like all of her books there is usually
something to be learned. I love the idea
that my students will be able to see through this fiction that they can make
changes in the world. After all, in our IB school we teach them to to be global students. I believe our students would be able to identify with these young people.
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