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- Brothers and Sisters
- An Accidental Adventure
- Adventures
- Explorers
- G. Alexander London
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Customer Review
Cute, relatable book
My kids are couch potatoes who have to be dragged out to do stuff, so when I got this book they thought for sure I had gotten it ON PURPOSE TO ANNOY THEM. At least, my older daughter did. My son was excited to read it because he thought the dad in the book sounded a lot like his dad, then I read it because I could. My son also took the book to his class to share because he was so hopped up about it and I thought we might not ever see it again, but it came back eventually.I will also say that my son, a 3rd grader, was a very reluctant reader prior to reading this book. He has the ability to read at higher grade levels, but always tried to get away with Pokemon comic books, until he read this book. This book has relatable characters and a funny story, and I think it made him realize that books are indeed pretty awesome. Now he's tackling Percy Jackson and Narnia.
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March 9, 2011
(USA) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
Excellent fun!
We are Not Eaten by Yaks by C. Alexander London is an exciting addition to the world of adventure books for middle-grade readers. It is the relatable tale of two 11 year-old twins (Celia and Oliver) who would rather watch TV and eat junk food than travel the world with their two explorer parents. But when their mother disappears and their father is incapacitated by poison witches in Tibet, they have no choice but to engage in an escapade where they find themselves face-to-face with an angry yeti, an evil imposter, complicated mysteries they must unravel, and much more.Yaks is riveting and suspenseful, yet always laced with a sense of humor that keeps it light and suitable for `tweens. London subtly scatters his book with sophisticated vocabulary and the information he provides about the location of these exploits is bound to spark interest in his readers.
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March 10, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5
Bring on the Yak Attack!
It's been a good two decades since I read a book geared towards kids (it's been a good decade since I was one), and here I was, within hours of picking up We Are Not Eaten by Yaks, lying in bed with a flashlight, my wife asleep next to me, as in love with reading as I was when I was a kid.This book is just tremendous fun. The Navel twins are the perfect duo of sarcastic adventurers, thrust into danger's way in the mountains of Tibet, when they'd rather just be at home, nestled up with cable. C. Alexander London, who previously wrote as a pretty serious journalist (look it up) keeps the pages flowing, one after another, with enough action, insight, and humor to keep readers on their toes. Twists and turns abound, poison witches appear, yetis wreak havoc, all the while Oliver and Celia fight to stave off boredom with the hope of reality TV's sweet embrace.If only the Navels had An Accidental Adventure book to read. Perhaps then they wouldn't crave cable...
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February 22, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
Product Description
Eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel live on the 4-1/2th floor of the Explorers Club with their father, Dr. Navel. Their mother, Dr. Navel, has been missing for years. So when an explorer shows up with a clue as to where his wife could be, Dr. Navel drags Oliver and Celia to Tibet to find her. Once there, the twins fall out of airplanes, encounter Yetis, travel through waterfalls, and end up in the Demon Fortress of the Warrior King where they-just possibly-might find their mother and save their father from the Poison Witches. Thing is, they would much rather be watching television. And if their trip doesn't work out as planned, the twins could end up as slaves to Sir Edmund Thitheltorpe III, an evil explorer with breath that smells like boiled carrots, who has it in for the whole Navel family.
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A Cute But Insubstantial Yak