Journey into Terror
By (Author) Bill Wallace
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
6th August 1996
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
176
Width 127mm, Height 198mm, Spine 10mm
163g
Journey into Terror is Bill Wallace's wild adventure of two young boys on the run.
Photographing two Learjets in order to test his new camera, Samuel Ross quickly forgets the angry man who tries to stop him (and who's captured in the picture), until his new life in Oklahoma is disrupted by the arrival of four thugs who are demanding his film.
Bill Wallace grew up in Oklahoma. Along with riding their horses, he and his friends enjoyed campouts and fishing trips. Toasting marshmallows, telling ghost stories to scare one another, and catching fish was always fun. One of the most memorable trips took place on the far side of Lake Lawtonka, at the base of Mt. Scott. He and his best friend, Gary, spent the day shooting shad with bow and arrows, cutting bank poles, and getting ready to go when their dads got home from work. Although there was no "monster" in Lake Lawtonka, one night there was a "sneak attack" by a rather large catfish tail. Checking the bank poles was not nearly as fun or "free" after that point, but it was the inspiration for this story. Bill Wallace has won nineteen children's state awards and been awarded the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award for Children's Literature from the Oklahoma Center for the Book.