Stanley Yelnats is having a miserable summer at Camp Green Lake. Reason #1: Camp Green Lake is not a camp, it’s a juvenile detention facility. For teenage criminal offenders. Which Stanley is not. Reason #2: There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There’s only desert. And blistering, unrelenting heat. Reason #3: Camp Green Lake is run by a crazy warden, who has a nefarious agenda of her own. Will Stanley survive his sentence and live to tell about it? Or will the poisonous warden and her desert of doom claim him first?
Genre: Fiction (Tween) Jenny’s rating (out of 5 stars): 4.5 You’ll like this book if: You like action and adventure, madmen and mystery, surprises … and redemption. You won’t like this book if: The realities of racial tensions bother you.