The Absolutely True Story: How I Visted Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rupes - Hardcover

Roberts, Willo Davis

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9780689319396: The Absolutely True Story: How I Visted Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rupes

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ISBN 10: 0689319398 ISBN 13: 9780689319396

Publisher: Atheneum, 1994

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Twins Lewis and Alison Dodge discover that their dream vacation to Yellowstone with the Rupe family has become a nightmare as they baby-sit for two rambunctious preschoolers, cope with Mr. Rupe's terrible driving, and track two men who are trailing the Rupes.

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About the Author:

Willo Davis Roberts wrote many mystery and suspense novels for children during her long and illustrious career, including The Girl with the Silver Eyes, The View from the Cherry Tree, Twisted Summer, Megan’s Island, Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job, Hostage, Scared Stiff, The Kidnappers, and Caught! Three of her children’s books won Edgar Awards, while others received great reviews and other accolades, including the Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award, the California Young Reader’s Medal, and the Georgia Children’s Book Award.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-7?Twelve-year-old twins Lewis and Alison are invited to join their new neighbors, the five-member Rupe family, on a summertime trip from Washington state to Yellowstone Park in a rented motor home. Though pleased to be going, Lewis realizes that he and Alison (especially Alison) will be responsible for Billy, 4, and Ariadne, 3, as brother Harry, 12, and the wealthy, laissez-fair parents seem oblivious to the needs of the two mischievous youngsters. Lewis often reflects on the orderly comfort of his own home with its wholesome meals and consistent parents, as traveling with the Rupes involves driving mishaps, frayed nerves, missing children, and a surfeit of junk food. Even the fascinating scenery is dimmed by the Rupes boorish behavior, but the real discomfiture surrounds Billy's puzzling discovery of stray $100 bills in the motor home and the sense that they are being tailed by two suspicious-looking men. Danger intensifies when the men seize the vehicle and drive off with the children on board. The kids use clever guerilla tactics to foil the predictably nasty kidnappers and save the day in this high-spirited tale of action and light suspense, reminiscent of Roberts's popular Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job (Atheneum, 1985).?Susan W. Hunter, Riverside Middle School, Sringfield, VT
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