24 Hours in Nowhere by Dusti Bowling
I refused to believe that after everything we had gone through, this was how it would all end.
| WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN WHY | Gus, a "thirteen-year-old boy in the body of an eight-year old," abandoned by his father and now living in a trailer with his grandmother who spends her days glued to the television. The ultimate underdog. Gus and his companions Rossi, Jessie, and Matthew must get enough gold from a deserted mine to buy back Rossi's stolen motorcycle. Dead Frenchman Mine "everyone who had entered the mine in the last seventy years had died an agonizing, suffocating, bone-crushing death. 24 hours. That's all time they have to enter the mine, find the gold, and get the motorcycle in time for Rossi to enter the dirt bike competition. "Justice. I had to fight for justice." |  |
Bowling has crammed this quirky little novel chock full of humor, intense life-threatening adventure, and a ton of vocabulary word entries cleverly inserted at important junctures in the narrative. 24 Hours in Nowhere will keep readers rapidly turning pages as the four thirteen-year-old kids try to stay alive, race against time, and remain friends. No small task. But in a place like Nowhere, Arizona anything can happen.
I had become quite reckless and daring in the last twenty-four hours.
Bonus
 | Rossi is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a "federally-recognized tribe that includes approximately 28,000 members" occupying tribal lands in the Sonoran Desert located in Southwestern Arizona. Learn more about this tribe, its history, government and culture. |
Uncorrected copy provided by publisher.
Pub date: September 4, 2018 Publisher: Sterling Childrens Books ISBN: 978-1454929246
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