Buried Alive (Mysteries in Our National Parks) [School & Library Binding]

Gloria Skurzynski (Author), Alane Ferguson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2003 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Mysteries in Our National Parks (Book 12)

This latest thriller takes the Landons to Alaska, where wildlife biologist Olivia and her photographer husband, Steven, have been asked to study the impact of snowmobiles on the wolverine population of Denali National Park. With the family is 13-year-old Nicky Milano. When a man in a Park Service uniform offers to take Jack, Ashley, and Nicky on a dogsled ride, the kids eagerly accept. They mush off across the snow, riding deeper and deeper into the frozen wilderness. But during a rest stop, the man suddenly rushes off, leaving the young people stranded. As they huddle to keep warm and try to figure out what to do, they hear a deafening roar. Avalanche! Now the kids must fight for their lives. Can they somehow escape the thundering mass of snow? Or will they be buried alive?

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-7-In this 12th book in the series, Jack and Ashley Landon are once again in a life-or-death situation. Thirteen-year-old Nicky Milano has joined the Landons on their trip to Denali National Park in Alaska. What the siblings don't know is that he is in the Witness Protection Program and has a "hit" out on him, to prevent him from telling secrets he learned from his mobster father. Together the three young people must deal with an assassin on a dogsled, an avalanche, and carbon-monoxide poisoning. A must-have for fans of the series (originally called the "National Parks Mystery" series), the book also stands alone as a suspenseful survival story.
Yapha Nussbaum Mason, Brentwood Lower School, Los Angeles
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• School & Library Binding
• Publisher: Topeka Bindery (February 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0613709357
• ISBN-13: 978-0613709354
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,439,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ryan's Review, November 30, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mysteries in Our National Parks: Buried Alive (#12) (Paperback)

I thought this book book was a good book. It probably is one of the best in the series. It is heart pounding suspenseful,thrilling and full of action. It was heart pounding and suspenseful because when the avalanche comes they get freaked.

This book is about Jack and Ashley going Alaska's Denali National Park and Reserve to investigate the death of two male wolverines. They bring a boy named Nickey Milano and Jack gets suspicious about him when Nickey says that he is crazy and they don't know what they are dealing with. They get to their cabin and the next mourning Jack and Ashley go out in the snow to see a moose but Nickey finds them and they find out that his dad is in the CIA but jack knows he is lying. They get to Denali and a man named Chaz has agreed to take them on a dog sled ride to wonder lake while Olivia is studying the dead wolverines. They next thing the Landon kids and Nickey know the is they see Chaz riding away leaving them stranded in the middle of Alaska's wilderness. Suddenly they hear a roaring sound what is it AVALANCH! Can the the three of them escape the roaring mass of snow or will they be buried alive.

I recommend this book to a 8-13 year old or someone who likes mystery books.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars survival mystery, April 8, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mysteries in Our National Parks: Buried Alive (#12) (Hardcover)

This National Park Mystery is different from all the other ones. The story actually spends more time talking about the foster kid, Nicky Milano. If you enjoy the National Park Mysteries, and like the story about the kids verses the mystery, then this book is for you. It just gives so much more detail. Remember, there are eleven other books before this one.
The thing with this book is that it is so suspenseful to see if the Landon kids and Nicky Milano will survive. (...). That's when Nicky stops lying, and tells Jack and Ashley the real story of his dangerous, hidden life, and his father, an ex-criminal.
I liked this book because I think it had more emotion in it. This story's foster kid really bonded with Jack and Ashley. The only thing with this last book is that I think the author rushed it. I mean, the bad guy goes right out and says he did it. Where's the mystery? Other than that, it was great. So read all the other Mysteries in our National Parks.

4.0 out of 5 stars good plot, February 9, 2011

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This review is from: Mysteries in Our National Parks: Buried Alive: A Mystery in Denali National Park (Mass Market Paperback)

Foster kids are not usually this troublesome!

"Buried Alive" is better than the other two National Parks mysteries I have read by these authors. Their research is good - that makes the books more enjoyable. The characters in this book were more charming, but always with the difficult, dangerous foster child. Ideally in America, we would encourage MORE people to be foster parents. This book will do the opposite.

As far as survival skills, your child will learn how to cope with an avalanche, how to determine which way is "up" if he or she is buried under snow (spit falls down), how to construct a snow cave, how to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning and hypothermia, and how to signal a rescue plane!

A bit of a troublesome religion reference, on page 39: "Once again Jack thought how hard it was to be a ranger in the Park Service. Their jobs seemes both physically and mentally tough, and yet every ranger he'd ever met loved life in the parks. It almost seemed that being a ranger was a calling, a vocation, like choosing to be a priest or a missionary. Well, in a way, all rangers were missionaries. It was as if the wilderness was their church, the animals their congregation. He turned that thought over as their plane banked sharply to the left..."

Paragraphs like that confuse worshiping the created thing (nature) with worshiping the Creator.