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A review by thatgirlinblack
The Stowaway Solution by Gordon Korman
5.0
*Spoilers*
LA is crawling with police. Aiden and Meg Falconer, the only hopes for their innocent parents in jail, are searching for evidence to prove their CIA contact Frank Lindenauer was in fact the real traitor. The only way out is being smuggled aboard a ship in empty oil casks. Things are bad enough at first, hiding in a swinging lifeboat and then in the water tank, but things go horribly wrong when they are discovered and caught by the crew. Dare they hope for a miracle?
Knocking out a sailor, they desperately take to the ocean in a raft in the middle of a storm. And then, the unthinkable happens. Aiden and Meg are separated. She's knocked out aboard the raft and he's tossing around in the ocean in a life jacket.
Rowing to shore is the most physically exhausting thing Meg's done. Waiting and searching for her brother for 2 days, then being forced to continue on without him is the emotionally hardest thing she's done. That's why she's electrified when she sees on a TV broadcast that he's alive! Aiden was picked up barely conscious and taken to a nearby hospital, and that's where Meg's going.
Guarding Aiden is FBI Agent Harris, the man responsible for the Falconer parents' capture. But now he's doubting whether he captured the right people. And now he really wants to help these kids. Aiden, who's had his parents dragged away, been through months of guard at a juvenile facility, and endured terrifying weeks of fleeing and evading the long arm of the law with his sister, isn't convinced.
Neither is Meg. Staging a bike accident, she gets into the same hospital as Aiden and frees him. Agent Harris' handcuffs come in handy to restrain him, his cellphone comes in handy to throw the police onto a different track so they can escape, and his car comes in handy to escape in. The little seaside town doesn't have the manpower to pursue effectively, and the Falconers live another day in freedom. Miracles truly do happen.
LA is crawling with police. Aiden and Meg Falconer, the only hopes for their innocent parents in jail, are searching for evidence to prove their CIA contact Frank Lindenauer was in fact the real traitor. The only way out is being smuggled aboard a ship in empty oil casks. Things are bad enough at first, hiding in a swinging lifeboat and then in the water tank, but things go horribly wrong when they are discovered and caught by the crew. Dare they hope for a miracle?
Knocking out a sailor, they desperately take to the ocean in a raft in the middle of a storm. And then, the unthinkable happens. Aiden and Meg are separated. She's knocked out aboard the raft and he's tossing around in the ocean in a life jacket.
Rowing to shore is the most physically exhausting thing Meg's done. Waiting and searching for her brother for 2 days, then being forced to continue on without him is the emotionally hardest thing she's done. That's why she's electrified when she sees on a TV broadcast that he's alive! Aiden was picked up barely conscious and taken to a nearby hospital, and that's where Meg's going.
Guarding Aiden is FBI Agent Harris, the man responsible for the Falconer parents' capture. But now he's doubting whether he captured the right people. And now he really wants to help these kids. Aiden, who's had his parents dragged away, been through months of guard at a juvenile facility, and endured terrifying weeks of fleeing and evading the long arm of the law with his sister, isn't convinced.
Neither is Meg. Staging a bike accident, she gets into the same hospital as Aiden and frees him. Agent Harris' handcuffs come in handy to restrain him, his cellphone comes in handy to throw the police onto a different track so they can escape, and his car comes in handy to escape in. The little seaside town doesn't have the manpower to pursue effectively, and the Falconers live another day in freedom. Miracles truly do happen.