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    The Explorer
    The Explorer
    The Explorer
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Explorer

    Written by Katherine Rundell

    Narrated by Peter Noble

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    From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they're on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds a map that leads them to a ruined city, and to a secret.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 6, 2018
    ISBN9781501991394
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    Katherine Rundell

    Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner), The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, The Good Thieves, and The Zebra’s Great Escape. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless. In her spare time, she enjoys walking on tightropes and trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges.

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    • 5/5
      Katherine Rundell has a way with words, her books always transport you to another world. It’s almost as if you can see the book coming to life right before your eyes. This book was fantastic!

      Four kids surviving in the Amazon after their planes crashes, while it seems like it wouldn’t be something believable, the way this book is written you’d believe it happens all the time.

      I cannot wait to read more of this authors work, I always enjoy her books.
    • 5/5
      A very fine book for children and younger teens. You'll keep wanting to know what happen next. The story has a clear message, and it's an important one. Read or listen to this, you won't regret it.
    • 1/5
      For some reason only plays through one speaker on several headphones. Thought they were all broken but other books/music work fine.

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    • 3/5
      The Explorer is the story of four children who are on a plane leaving Brazil and bound for England. Reminiscent of the novel, Hatchet, the pilot has an attack and dies while trying to save the plane from crashing. After the plane explodes, the four are on their own in the Amazon Jungle. They survive for several days using their wits and their knowledge but have no idea how they will get home. The longer they are in the jungle, the more evidence they find that someone has been there before them. Their only hope is to find someone who can help them get to the nearest city so that they can get home.

      The Explorer isn't all that unique as a survival story, but backstories of the main characters are well-developed. There is some humor and lots of adventure making this story an enjoyable read. Overall, a good book for middle grade readers.
    • 2/5
      I was reading this with my eleven year old son and we made it to about page 130 before stopping. There was just absolutely no interest in continuing the book for either of us. I think the main problem was just that the story moved really slow and just wasn’t that interesting.The premise of this book is that four kids survive a plane crash but end up stranded in the Amazon jungle. They are struggling to survive and find their way out to a major city so they can get home.The characters are overly characterized and one dimensional which made them hard to engage with. You very obviously have a brave kid, a smart kid, a whiny kid, etc. Their struggles in the Amazon forest are typical of numerous other survival books.Overall no one in my family enjoyed this story. While it was technically written fine; the characters, pacing, and plot left a lot to be desired.
    • 5/5
      Great story about four children lost in the AMazon and how they struggle to survive.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book. And I really wasn't expecting too, WH Smith had a 3 books for the price of two offer on, so I bought it as the random third book. It is the story of four children forced to survive in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes. So it is everything you would expect from a learning / growing / coming of age adventure story. But I just really loved it. The character of the explorer, so cynical and defensive and convinced children are annoying, but mellowing and showing his care in his own quirky ways. The gloriously exciting flight over the rain forest. And... some of the speechifying near the end might have been a bit heavy handed and clunky in another author's hands, but it really clicked for me, and made me well up, thinking of Love, and the Beauty of the World.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful! Characters who grow and love. The Amazon rainforest and all its wonders! Adventure, the good kind. Sparkling writing and wit. This is one I will read again and recommend.
    • 5/5
      I received an ARC digital copy through Edelweiss

      Ah! I'm so glad I was able to read this one! I love a good survival story, but it's been a while since I've read one. I enjoyed all the feels this story brought, and loved the characters, the setting, and the writing! The story was well told, and I love how the author used some of her own experiences to enhance the story!

      I have always wanted to be a missionary, and to travel the world helping people. This story re-awoke that desire, and reminded me that not only do other countries offer a chance to explore and help people, but that there are people all around me who need a friend and a helping hand, and that life is an adventure, all we have to do it enjoy the ride.

      I loved the explorer, and while I enjoyed all the characters, I loved how he was both wild and loving, wise and slightly mad. I often feel like I don't belong in modern society, like I was meant to be someone, or somewhere, else. I love how he found a place to call home, a place where he could be himself, even when the world seems to want you to be someone else.

      My one dislike, that while there was only one swear word mentioned, there were quite a few cases where the word God was used to swear. I appreciate that as a children's book, they didn't use the regular words, but still disliked God being used this way. Outside of that one thing, I loved it, and highly recommend it!