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Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017
This book chronicles a family's struggle to reunite after a large earthquake in Washington state. The father and son are hiking in the mountains and the mother and small daughter are at home when the disaster strikes. When the father is injured in the quake, the young man takes on adult responsibilities to help them get home. The mother and daughter struggle to adapt to a neighborhood without power and without law enforcement.Although written for a younger audience, I enjoyed the engaging plot and positive examples set by the characters. The principles of disaster preparedness highlighted in this story would apply in many other disaster situations, supplying good ideas for families in trying times.
A Duncan
Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2014
Presents many ideas useful in emergencies as part of the story, the reader is learning while reading a fun story.
Leon P. Scamahorn
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2014
The book uses a simple story line to address simple usable radio systems to communicate with loved ones during an crisis. The family is reasonably prepared and some of us can relate to the book as we live in Washington State and have gone through earthquakes and experienced loss of communications with loved ones and friends. The book gives you food for thought on how to prepare and have a communications plan in place after an major event.
GuitarPlayer
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013
Andrew Baze's The Road Home is a great novel for teens that introduces radio communication in disasters. I really enjoyed the way Andrew tied "ham" radio into a disaster scenario which teaches some of the entry level radio skills particularly VHF/UHF and repeaters. I also enjoyed how Andrew tied in present day tools used for backpacking, "bugging out", and emergency radio communication in general. He also details some of this information in the appendix for further research after you complete the book.The book in general does read a bit like a young adult novel but is still a fun, quick read for us adults and hams. I would have really enjoyed the book more if it was written with a higher grammar level and was a bit longer and more detailed in the radio world but regardless a nice book about ham radio that is non-technical. I gave the book 4 stars only because I felt it could have been written on the adult level rather than the young adult level. Regardless still worth the read for anyone interested in radio or emergency communications. I am hoping it peaks my sons interest as well.
sir
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2013
I think the author did a very very good job of using ham radio in the story and ALSO having an explanation of all of it in the back of the book. . It is a story for young adults (so at 64 I am a young adult!) I enjoyed it you will too. If you are thinking about HAm Radio as a hobby (passion) then get this book . good quick read and enjoyable , kj4ezx 73's Terry
KPM
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2012
I really like this book. Other reviews stated it is for young adults which I did not even know when I bought and read it :) It is a simple and fast read, but very entertaining and helpful. It is not whatsoever like other disaster or survival books. The title says it all. If you get separated from your family, how do you get home? I do not recall what size earthquake was in the book but it was described as a city-buster. What if it were smaller? What if it were a hurricane? Or a snow-storm? The author honors the title by focusing on realistic scenarios (no zombies, asteroids, or global storms) and their impact on his home and family. As well, the characters were regular folks, not scientists or military or other far-fetched folks. I especially like the amateur radio stuff. I travel in the backcountry a lot and often rely on my handheld radio. Even in some of our country's most remote wilderness you will find access to repeaters and clubs. It is a simple and smart book worth all 1,299 pennies!
T.Perraut
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2011
Disclaimers:* I happen to work in the same company as the author. So I hear about his book at work. That said, I do not know the author and he did not influence my review (nor did he ask me to review the book).* The story happens around the Pacific Northwest, in the city where I live and around places I'm familiar with. So that gives it an eerie feeling of "this could really happen here". And that's the point, disasters can and do happen.* as part of prep work, I became a HAM radio operator a year ago. So I'm familiar with all the HAM part of the book.This book, IMO, is meant to be entertaining while teaching. So it's all about practical things the characters are doing, with some links to the reference section at the end to get more information. So it's 100% practical, but only to get you started to learn more. For instance you will get some idea about what HAM radio are, how they can be used in emergency (and also in day to day), but this is not going to be a "buy this model" or "press this button to get that function" kind of book. That's a good thing as that would be boring otherwise.I found the read to be really fast. I liked it, but as I read it on an ipod Touch, I've no clue how many pages the book has. Basically while there's a real end to the book, I'm waiting for the next one. Without spoiler alert: "what would happen next?" is my question. If the author gets to write and publish another book to follow the first, I will definitively buy it.Why buying this book? For you or for others:- if you are already aware of disaster preparation and involved, you might find a few tricks and ideas, and get you more into action.- if you want to influence friends, neighbors, family... to either get them more prepared, more aware or tolerate you more :-) this is a great book. The disaster is related to an Earthquake, so while the learnings apply to any disaster, you will be more successful influencing folks on the west coast from CA to WA with this book.- if you like the genre of this book of course.- likely other reasons.I found this book fast to read and much more approachable for folks non aware of disaster preparedness than many other books that are either "survival manual", or "end of the world" scenarios.I gave it 4 stars because I really liked it, but this is not the best book I've ever read. So hopefully the 4 starts versus 5 will not be seen as a negative.
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