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True Survival series: Juliane Koepcke, Lost in Peru NF picture book

I disagree with professional reviews’ opinion that this is a middle grade book. With its detailed and embedded passages further explaining things like bacteria the physics of thrust plus Juliane’s age (17 and a high school senior), this is more for the jr high and up age group altho the absence of profanity and sexual content makes it OK for middle grade readers wanting a more challenging survival story.

Inset passages on topics that correspond to events such as an article on plane lift and safety features as Juliane’s plane begins to plummet and bacteria and viruses as she contemplates drinking from a bubbling water source without the ability to boil it first.