I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20) (20)

I am a homeschooling Mom (an actual homeschooler. Not a “because of Covid homeschooler.”I bought this for my 8 year old son but I am returning it. First, the language in it is so dumbed down... “that shot was sick,” it was “crazy hot,” outside, “his pool didn’t have a water slide but it was still pretty sweet.”That is only 7 pages in and I am cringing. I have done my best to expose my son to extremely rich literature with high vocabulary content and this book is written for the typical dumbed down public school child.The main character Josh wouldn’t accept a hug from his Mom because “he wasn’t the touchy type.”“That’s for sure.”It might be an exciting story line but I cannot in good conscience give my son this shameful literary content.We own every single I Survived book. For some reason I felt the need to proof read this book because I found out the author works for scholastic and they are known to be extremely liberal and expose children to inappropriate topics. Now that I see the writing in this book is shameful English, I am going to read through all of the other books we own and dispose of them if they are just as dumbed down, language wise.Part of homeschooling is to expose our children to QUALITY literature and good writing so that they themselves will become good writers and know proper English.This is the garbage public schoolers are reading and this is the reason so many of them sound so idiotic when they speak. This language is so dumbed down, immature.... no thank you.So here is a review for the other homeschooling Mothers who want quality literature for their children.

Omg... finally it came out! I've been waiting for months! (Which felt like thousands of years)Ohh woww! I just bought it and probably going to finish in 30~40 min.Ahh I'll leave another review after I read it all :ÞI am so (x100) HAPPY!!

2nd day of having the book and he's already done with it!! He loves all the I survived books!!!

My 8 year old son (Third grade) loves these books. He is a gifted child and reads on a 6th grade level and these are easy for him to read. He likes non-fiction and a bit of drama and these are perfect. They're also a couple dollars cheaper on Amazon than at my local store!

My 11 yo was so excited to get this new release. It’s an easy, quick read. She finished it in two days and loved it like she does all of the books in this series!

Very fast shipping, book was perfect. Thank you!

I’m in California so this book ihits close to home with the wildfire themes. Besides great character development and adventure, I learned about fire management and the equipment used to fight wildfires. Highly recommended for the 3-5th grade kiddos.

My granddaughter is almost 9 and she loves these books. She’ll get off the iPad to read them.

Este es uno de los libros de Tarshis que más temas trata en su historia pero que son importantes para todo chico y chica: cuando tienes un padre que va a la cárcel, los animales exóticos que son comprados como mascotas y después cruelmente abandonados por sus dueños y claro, un incendio de horror. Como siempre, los libros no son sólo la aventura sino también el aprendizaje y con este libro aprendí algunas cosas sobre los incendios que nunca había pensado como... ¡Qué es bueno que haya incendios!Los chicos de esta historia se encontrarán atrapados en un incendio en el bosque de proporciones terribles.

I love the book. I haven’t read it yet but I already like it. There’s nothing I don’t like. And thanks for sending it so early.

I was a very good book and never had a boring partalso the author you could write a book about death valley and how the salt destored the cropsThank you