Thursday, March 22, 2007

Books save lives

Novel might have helped save missing Scout's life

Baltimore Sun

By Jonathan Pitts

..."A team of rescuers found Michael Auberry, the 12-year-old Boy Scout who had been missing in the rugged wilderness of western North Carolina for four days, alive and well, if a bit shaken and dehydrated.
According to his father, Kent Auberry, a key to the boy's survival might have been a book Michael spent a few weeks reading several years ago: Hatchet, a realistic novel by Paulsen that has attained the status of a young adult classic since its publication in 1988."

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