I survived the attack of the grizzlies, 1967 / by Lauren Tarshis ; adapted by Georgia Ball ; inks by Berat Pekmezci ; lettering by Olga Andreyeva ; color by Leo Trinidad.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781338766936
- ISBN: 1338766937
- ISBN: 9781338766912
- ISBN: 1338766910
- ISBN: 9781685054113
- Physical Description: 147 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2022.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date, binding, and paging may vary. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Target Audience Note: | Decoding demand: 80 (high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 68 (high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile GN460L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.2 1 515118. |
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Genre: | Adventure story comics. Historical comics. Action and adventure comics. Graphic novels. |
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Available copies
- 32 of 52 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 3 of 4 copies available at Trails Regional.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 52 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Trails Regional-Concordia | J GN TAR (Text) | 2205157387 | Juvenile Graphic Novels | Checked out | 05/08/2024 |
Trails Regional-Holden | J GN TAR (Text) | 2205157452 | Juvenile Graphic Novels | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Lexington | J GN TAR (Text) | 2205157098 | Juvenile Graphic Novels | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Warrensburg | J GN TAR (Text) | 2205157239 | Juvenile Graphic Novels | Available | - |
Kirkus Review
I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967: a Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novel #5)
Kirkus Reviews
Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
A child mourning the loss of her mom "bears" witness to the consequences of strewing the natural landscape with garbage. In this graphic-novel adaptation of a 2018 entry in Tarshis' long-running I Survived series--in which invented storylines are layered over historical incidents--it's 1967, and Mel (Vega in the original, though her last name is never mentioned here) has reluctantly agreed to continue a family tradition in the wake of her mother's death by visiting her grandpa in Montana's Glacier National Park. She is terrified when a bear attacks the cabin door one night. Later, she and Cassie, a writer friend of her mom's, meet up with a researcher whose own father had been bloodily killed in an earlier attack and discover that a local resort has been dumping garbage nearby to draw bears for a nightly show that people, including even park rangers, avidly gather to watch. That evening, in a narrow escape that is also put to use as an opening teaser, Mel herself is savagely wounded. Two deaths that occurred in real life that summer, plus the shooting of the bears involved (talk about blaming the victims!), happen offstage, but the live and dead bears in Pekmezci's neatly drawn wilderness scenes look feral enough to have readers attending closely to the safety guidelines in the backmatter--and understanding the dangers of letting wild animals become dependent on our detritus. Like others in the series, this one follows a predictable trajectory, but readers should find it absorbing. Mel is brown-skinned, Cassie appears to be Black, and the researcher is light-skinned. Formulaic but rousingly gruesome in some spots and thought-provoking in others. (afterword, photos, timeline, resource lists) (Graphic novel. 9-11) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.