![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Adventure fans will thoroughly enjoy this Australian import and anxiously await the next three books in the series. Luke makes a compelling narrator, balancing tense drama with realistic moments of self-doubt, friendship dynamics, and a budding attraction to Jordan. ![]() The story is fast paced and punctuated with dry humor. ![]() Despite their reluctance to believe Crazy Bill’s strange ramblings, the friends find themselves on a dangerous quest to uncover the truth about Phoenix and save the world from its scheduled destruction in 100 days. So when we flew out to Phoenix a couple of weeks ago, it never really entered my head that I might be triggering a countdown to the destruction of the human. He sends a coded message to Luke and his friends, Jordan and Peter, leading them to a now-abandoned airport and providing clues to a hidden map. The biggest incongruity in this seemingly perfect, invite-only community is Crazy Bill, a homeless man. The Phoenix Files 1: The Arrival - by Chris Morphew Senior category - it was a tie (with just 40 votes cast) The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - by William Kamkwamba Two Good Thieves / She Thief. While the town of Phoenix seems shiny and idyllic, Luke cannot adjust to the lack of cars, roads, Internet, or cell-phone coverage. Still reeling from his parents’ divorce, Luke resents moving to the Australian outback for his mother’s latest high-powered job. ![]()
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