Real Kids, Real AdventuresTM #4:
Runaway Bus; Click to enlarge Runaway Bus
by Deborah Morris

Also Includes: Abandon Ship and Poison Gas

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Description: Real life dramas for kids, about kids! A ten-year-old has to take the wheel when his school bus driver collapses and the bus veers out of control... a Boy Scout suspects carbon monoxide poisoning when his entire family is suddenly taken ill... a teenage girl working as a Children's Hostess on a cruise ship is forced into a lifeboat when the ship catches fire.

"Hold on to your seat; you're in for a REAL wild ride!"

--Reader's Digest Editor Gary Sledge
(more reviews)

Paperback: 104 pages 2nd edition (July 2000)
Publisher: Adventure Ink
ISBN: 1-928591-09-4
Dimensions: (in inches) 0.35 x 7.62 x 5.26
Reading Level: Ages 10 and up

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Three Stories in One Book...

Runaway Bus
Ten-year-old Larry Champagne III of St. Louis, Missouri, was on his way to school with nineteen classmates when their bus driver suddenly toppled out of her seat, unconscious. As the school bus began to zigzag across the busy highway and other students began to scream, Larry realized it was up to him to take the wheel.

Episode #206 on the
Real Kids, Real Adventures TV series!

Abandon Ship
Seventeen-year-old Jenny Peterson of Burns Lake, BC, Canada was working as a Children’s Hostess aboard the luxury cruise ship, the Achille Lauro. But far out to sea in the Indian Ocean, the ship caught fire and began to sink.

Poison Gas
Justin Hockley, a twelve-year-old Boy Scout from Sturgis, South Dakota was doing his homework when he started feeling sick and very sleepy. When he realized the rest of his family -- his father, mother, younger sister and brother -- were all feeling the same way, he suspected they were being poisoned by something in the air.

Sneak Peek...

OUT OF CONTROL

The bus was going fast now. Several fancy cars with radar detectors blasted past them, going about ninety. Larry idly glanced around the inside of the bus, then up at the bus driver.
That was when it happened.
As he watched, Mrs. Blackman looked down--then slowly fell sideways, her hands still gripping the steering wheel. Larry's mouth flew open. Before he could move, the whole bus swerved to the right. His book bag shot off the seat onto the floor, and he was thrown halfway out into the aisle. A chorus of shrieks went up as the other kids slid out of their seats.
Horns blared and tires screeched as cars swerved to keep from slamming into them. The kids screamed in terror. They were going over fifty miles per hour with no one at the wheel!

Book Reviews

"Hold on to your seat; you're in for a REAL wild ride!" (Reader's Digest Editor Gary Sledge)

"The Real Kids Real Adventures series will restore your faith in America's youngsters.... The stories champion the notion that heroic courage abides in the heart of every child." (Joy Dickinson, Richardson News Book Reviewer)

"Wholesome and exciting... a series that will make both kids and parents happy." (ABC Radio)

"Kids love a hero--Hercules, Superman, and of course the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Fantasty characters all. But now, thanks to Deborah Morris, kids can sink their teeth and imaginations into a collection of tales about real-life heroes. And all of them are under voting age." (Pam Harbaugh, Florida Today)

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Publishing Information

REAL KIDS REAL ADVENTURES #4: RUNAWAY BUS
© 1997 by Deborah Morris

Cover design by Doug Downey
Text design by Sheryl Mehary

Publishing History:
Berkley edition published in 1997 as
Real Kids Real Adventures #4: A School Bus Out of Control (0-425-16086-6)
Adventure Ink edition published in 2000 as
Real Kids Real Adventures #4: Runaway Bus (1-928591-09-4)

Dewey Decimal Classification: JSC
Subject Heading: Adventure and Adventures\
Lifesaving--Stories, Plots, etc.
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 94-11741

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morris, Deborah, 1956-

Real kids real adventures / Deborah Morris. -- Adventure Ink ed.

Originally published: New York, New York: Berkley Publishers, © 1997.

ISBN 1-928591-05-1 (tradepaper : alk. paper : v.1).
ISBN 1-928591-13-2 (tradepaper : alk. paper : v.2).
ISBN 1-928591-04-3 (tradepaper : alk. paper : v.3).
ISBN 1-928591-09-4 (tradepaper : alk. paper : v.4).
ISBN 0-425-16117-X (pbk.: v.5).
ISBN 0-425-1615404 (pbk.: v.6).
ISBN 0-425-16190-0 (pbk.: v.7).
ISBN 1-928591-07-8 (tradepaper : alk. paper : v.8).
ISBN 0-425-16429-2 (pbk.: v.9).
ISBN 0-425-16578-7 (pbk.: v.10).
ISBN 1-928591-06-X (tradepaper : alk. paper : v.11)

Contents: 1. Shark Attack; Ski Slope Rescue; Drive for Dad's Life-- 2. Whirlpool; Kidnapped; Over the Edge-- 3. Bear Attack; Tornado; Blanco River Rescue-- 4. Runaway Bus; Poison Gas; Abandon Ship-- 5. Lightning Strike; Earthquake; Rope Swing Accident-- 6. Firestorm; Plane Crash; Trapped Underground-- 7. Plane Crash; Horse-Riding Accident; Blizzard-- 8. Apartment Fire; Runaway Balloon; Trinity River Rescue-- 9. Explosion; Lost Hiker; Crushed by a Car-- 10. Glacier; Wolf Attack; Rescue on the Internet-- 11. Mountain Lion; Lifesaver; Race for Rescue.

1. Christian biography--United States--Juvenile literature 2. Children--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature [1. Survival. 2. Adventure and adventurers. 3. Christian biography.] I. Title.

BR1714.M67       1997
277.3'082'0922--dc21 [B]       97-5391 CIP

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