Escaped and on the run, can Digger find redemption?
His bold escape from a juvenile detention facility nearly kills him, but soon an angry fourteen-year-old Digger is on the run, hijacking a tractor trailer, "borrowing" a bicycle, and stealing a canoe. When injuries stop him, Digger hides at a riverside campground, where he befriends a young boy and a girl his own age. New friends, a job caring for rescued horses, and risking his life to save another make Digger realize that the journey back is not just about getting home, it's about discovering what he's really running from, and how to come to terms with his troubled past.
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN-13: 9780142422908
ISBN-10: 0142422908
Published on 10/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
Book Reviews (6)
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Do you have a taste for adventure, suspense, bravery, and mystery? Then, The Journey Back by Priscilla Cummings is a book for you! The book takes place in modern times, and has many different locations in which the main character travels, such as the Cliffside Youth Detention Center, a bustling highway, the forest, a Virginia canal towpath, a campground, and a horse farm. The protagonist is Michael Griswold, a.k.a, Digger. The main antagonist is Michael’s mind, along with the police, and a gambler named Sherwood Hawkins. Two conflicts of the story are a prank Michael pulls on his neighbor's son, accidentally leading to the boy’s death. For this, he gets driven all the way to Maryland’s western border, and thrown into the Cliffside Youth Detention Center. However, after a visit from his mother, Michael finds that his family is still suffering from severe abuse by his father. Another conflict. Michael does something crazy, wanting to travel across the state to stop his father. This leads to the police on his tail, and deception from his mind if he made the right choice. The turning point in the story is when he finds friends and stays with them at a campground. The friends bring comfort, but one friend’s father, Sherwood Hawkins is willing to call the police at any slip up or refusal to do his bidding. Things take a turn for the worst when Sherwood steals all the money Michael has, disabling him from going anywhere. With guilt from the accident, the police on his tail, and nowhere to run, what will happen to Michael? Find out in The Journey Back, by Priscilla Cummings. I would recommend this book to anyone in 7th grade and over. My reasoning is that this book includes very mature material and lots of violence
This book is great! It's about a boy named Digger who was the second-degree murder of Ben DiAngelo (from the first book Red Kayak) and escapes from detention prison and is on the run. He does a lot of thinking on the way, and it really paints a beautiful picture in the story at the end. I thought this book was well written and hopefully you will too. ;)
Do you like books with with adventure and some suspense, then you will enjoy the book The Journey Back by Priscilla Cummings. When a boy named Michael “Digger” Griswold pulls a prank that goes bad, he is sent to the Cliffside Youth Detention Center and has to escape to get back to his family to save them from abuse from the Father. The story takes place in The Cliffside youth detention center, a forest, a horse farm, a highway, a campground, and a Virginia Canal Towpath and it takes place in present time. The protagonist Michael is and the antagonist is the police because they are after him because he is on the run, another is a guy named Sherwood Hawkins steals all the money that Michael has preventing him from going anywhere. One conflict is that he is in jail on Maryland’s western border and that he has to escape. Another conflict is that he has to travel across the state with little money until Sherwood steals any money he has left. I really enjoyed this book and recommend it to any who is old enough to understand some of the harsh and some what violent content and is able to read the harder wording and grammar in the book.
Do you have a taste for adventure, suspense, bravery, and mystery? Then, The Journey Back by Priscilla Cummings is a book for you! The book takes place in modern times, and has many different locations in which the main character travels, such as the Cliffside Youth Detention Center, a bustling highway, the forest, a Virginia canal towpath, a campground, and a horse farm. The protagonist is Michael Griswold, a.k.a, Digger. The main antagonist is Michael’s mind, along with the police, and a gambler named Sherwood Hawkins. Two conflicts of the story are a prank Michael pulls on his neighbor's son, accidentally leading to the boy’s death. For this, he gets driven all the way to Maryland’s western border, and thrown into the Cliffside Youth Detention Center. However, after a visit from his mother, Michael finds that his family is still suffering from severe abuse by his father. Another conflict. Michael does something crazy, wanting to travel across the state to stop his father. This leads to the police on his tail, and deception from his mind if he made the right choice. The turning point in the story is when he finds friends and stays with them at a campground. The friends bring comfort, but one friend’s father, Sherwood Hawkins is willing to call the police at any slip up or refusal to do his bidding. Things take a turn for the worst when Sherwood steals all the money Michael has, disabling him from going anywhere. With guilt from the accident, the police on his tail, and nowhere to run, what will happen to Michael? Find out in The Journey Back, by Priscilla Cummings. I would recommend this book to anyone in 7th grade and over. My reasoning is that this book includes very mature material and lots of violence.
Do you have a taste for adventure, suspense, bravery, and mystery? Then, The Journey Back by Priscilla Cummings is a book for you! The book takes place in modern times, and has many different locations in which the main character travels, such as the Cliffside Youth Detention Center, a bustling highway, the forest, a Virginia canal towpath, a campground, and a horse farm. The protagonist is Michael Griswold, a.k.a, Digger. The main antagonist is Michael’s mind, along with the police, and a gambler named Sherwood Hawkins. Two conflicts of the story are a prank Michael pulls on his neighbor's son, accidentally leading to the boy’s death. For this, he gets driven all the way to Maryland’s western border, and thrown into the Cliffside Youth Detention Center. However, after a visit from his mother, Michael finds that his family is still suffering from severe abuse by his father. Another conflict. Michael does something crazy, wanting to travel across the state to stop his father. This leads to the police on his tail, and deception from his mind if he made the right choice. The turning point in the story is when he finds friends and stays with them at a campground. The friends bring comfort, but one friend’s father, Sherwood Hawkins is willing to call the police at any slip up or refusal to do his bidding. Things take a turn for the worst when Sherwood steals all the money Michael has, disabling him from going anywhere. With guilt from the accident, the police on his tail, and nowhere to run, what will happen to Michael? Find out in The Journey Back, by Priscilla Cummings. I would recommend this book to anyone in 7th grade and over. My reasoning is that this book includes very mature material and lots of violence.
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