by Mindy Braun
Quick Summary
Minitex Resource Sharing staff member Melinda Braun has had her second YA novel AVALANCHE published November 29, 2016, by Simon Pulse.
Minitex Resource Sharing staff member Melinda Braun has had her second YA novel AVALANCHE published November 29, 2016, by Simon Pulse.
From the publisher:
Two groups of teens—those waiting to be saved and those doing the saving—are in a race against time and a battle against Mother Nature after an avalanche traps them in an isolated cabin in this chilling novel.
“I promise it’ll be a weekend you’ll never forget.”
A trip like that is exactly what Matt was hoping for—a fun adventure. A daring escape. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go back-country skiing in a thrilling but dangerous pass through the Rocky Mountains. The perfect way for Matt to forget about his disappointing father and maybe let loose a little with his best friend and a group of carefree adrenaline junkies.
But then their guide takes them off-path…and straight into an avalanche. By the time they make it safely into an abandoned cabin, one skier is dead and another severely injured. Trapped with no heat, no water, and no radio the group decides to wait it out. Help will come. It has to.
Until it doesn’t. And Matt knows if they wait any longer they’ll be dead—just another bunch of victims in Mother Nature’s twisted games. Armed with only a handful of supplies and his fierce determination Matt goes head-to-head with the elements, battling hypothermia, frostbite, and even mountain lions in order to find help and save them all. That is if Mother Nature doesn’t kill him first.
AVALANCHE has received nice reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, and SLJ. For more information, check out Riveted's blog post called BEHIND THE BOOK.
Melinda Braun's first novel STRANDED, about a group of teens on a camping trip trying to survive after a freak storm in the Boundary Waters wilderness, was a finalist for the 2016 Midland Author Award in Children's Literature and is currently available in paperback.
