If We Survive artfully examines issues of life and death, prayer and faith, and most forcefully courage do what is right despite your fear. Readers will feel the fear, taste the sweat and grime and agonize with Will over exhaustion and decisions that will determine his future and shape his character. After the first missionary is executed, Dunn escapes, and Will believes the ex-Marine has abandoned them to their doom.Īndrew Klavan spins another nonstop, action-packed tale laced with life principles for life’s extremities. The local rebel thug, Mendoza, imprisons the six Americans, and the Bush pilot, Palmer Dunn, insists the rebels will murderer them all. Rebels have initiated a revolution in Costa Verdes, and the five missionaries and their pilot are caught in the middle. While awaiting their pilot for the return trip home, rebel gunmen burst into the local cantina and murder the proprietor before their eyes. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Will, a High school sophomore and an unlikely hero, flies with Pastor Ron and three other students into a poverty stricken Central American country to rebuild a schoolhouse. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. Taylor Science & Technology Academy, Jefferson, LAα(c) Copyright 2011. This book will appeal to anyone who is looking for a fast-paced adventure story in which teens must do some fast thinking to survive.-Elizabeth Kahn, Patrick F. Klavan's Christian bent comes through in the story as Will's thoughts are peppered with his feelings about God and the men who try to inflict violence upon his friends as well as death, which the group faces many times over during the course of their escape. The group finds a way out of every harrowing situation, but there are consequences. Gunshots, machine guns, and killing ensue. Palmer, Will, and his friends are imprisoned and must find a way to escape.

Just as ex-marine Palmer Dunn enters the cantina to pick the group up, the rebels rush into town to take over. The book opens with the team still in the small town waiting to go home after completing the mission.

Their job on this Christian outreach mission was to rebuild a wall of the school that was destroyed by the Volcanoes, the local gang of rebels. Will Peterson is one of five members of a team that has traveled to a fictional country with an unstable government in Central America. Gr 8 Up-This gripping novel will hold readers' attention from the opening pages until the end.

If we survive by andrew klavan