Juggling Fire

Juggling Fire

By Joanne Bell

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Grades 6 - 8Grade 6n/a5.438918
Rachel's idyllic existence with her family in the remote mountain passes of northern Yukon was shattered by her father's depression, the family's relocation to "town" and her father's subsequent disappearance. Obsessed with understanding why her father never returned, Rachel hikes with her dog across mountain passes and along valleys to her childhood home. As she walks, she distracts herself from her anxiety by reinventing fairy tales remembered from her childhood. As the days pass, the imaginary quest begins to echo her own journey as she confronts danger, faces loneliness and unearths the truth about her father.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN-13: 9781554690947
ISBN-10: 1554690943
Published on 10/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 184

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The book that I read was Juggling Fire by Joanne Bell. My book is about a girl named Rachel who has many unanswered questions about her father. No one knows what happen to her dad but he just disappeared when she was a small child. She's on a quest to find her dad but she doesn't use transportation to find him. She's hiking with her dog Brooks. I really thought this book was amazing because I've never even really read a book that involves looking for a person so close to you. Rachel was so determined to find her father. The genre was realistic fiction because this could happen to someone. There could be a person right now trying to find their dad or someone else close to them. That person trying to find their dad or someone close to them will do whatever it takes to find them. The kind of people that would like to read this book is people who like to read about determined people or adventurous books because the majority of the book is about Rachel going on an adventure to find her dad and she'll do whatever it takes until she finds him. In the book Rachel faces a man v.s nature conflict. She has to hike, walk, and run in the woods and mountains to find her father.