The Tornado Chasers

(21 reviews with an average rating of 4 out of 5)

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Owen and his friends live in a country where fear rules. Parents are afraid their children will be swept away by a tornado or killed by bears.

As a result, children have to be home by 4pm, in bed and lights out by 6pm. They must wear bright yellow clothes to go to school, and have a buddy to walk home with every night.

Little wonder then that Owen and his friends are miserable. They want to escape, break all the rules and get as close to a tornado as they can.

While this is an engaging, humorous story, with lively characters; it is also substantial in its reflection on what is more frightening: risking our lives or wasting them.

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