title: This Is Not a Drill
author:  Beck McDowell 
description: Its already rough going when exes Emery and Jake are paired together to teach French to a class of first-graders. But then Brian Stutts, an Iraq War vet suffering from PTSD, charges into the class to take his kid. The teacher resists and out comes a gun, and from that moment everyone in the room is held hostage. Cops, ambulances, and SWAT teams gather, angling for a way to reason with Stutts. In alternating chapters, we discover how both Emery and Jake are processing the situation as well as their past relationship. The fact that theres a gun being waved around sometimes makes these tangents feel too leisurely, and its also unclear how the two are able to hold private conversations inside the same room as the gunman. That said, the setup is irresistible, and McDowells authentic handling of the confusion and fright of the class of first-graders lends the story a constant undertone of tension. Purposeful in parts, but fans of Todd Strasser and Paul Volponi will relish it. Grades 6-9. --Daniel Kraus
zlib_text: Leigh Robinson
  
  Bushcraft
  
  The Bow Drill Bible.
  
    
  
  Dedication
  
  
  
  To Kerrie, for enduring the smell of smouldering bow drill embers wafting
  through the home for too long.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  
  
  To Kevin Purse who showed me how to make my first Bow Drill set and sent me
  deep down the rabbit hole.
  
  
  
  To Nick Mills who helped and participated with the photography.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A request
  
  
  
  Please can you submit a customer review on Amazon. Reviews help encourage
  others to persevere and see that their problems with bow drilling can be
  overcome.
  
    
  
  Leigh Robinson
  
  
  
  Bushcraft
  
  The Bow Drill Bible.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First Published 2018 by Kindle Direct Publishing.
  
  
  
  Copyright (C) Text and photography Leigh Robinson 2018
  
  
  
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  ISBN 97819