I enjoyed this coming-of-age story centered on boys, camp, and what comes next in our lives.
The Quest for the Golden Plunger; The Misadventures of the Adventure Rangers starts with a video game session and ends in the wild woods of adventurer Rangers Camp.
Fifteen-year-old Do-Over wants to win Camp Winnebago's coveted Golden Plunger to score a free trip high-adventure camp with his fellow Adventure Rangers. The troop's nemesis Troop 100 plans to making their life hell. Troop 100 is run like a military branch while 1000 is a team of those that will never be popular. Their behavior escalates to a gross incident in the bathroom.
But the people aren't the only challenge. Troop 99 will have to survive a twisted game of paintball, outrun a rabid buck with tasers mounted to its antlers, and avoid getting in trouble with the camp staff if they want to stand a chance at winning the Golden Plunger.
Jackson Dickert creates a book that both fun and humorous but also sweat with a real heart. Since it's centered on boys, you might expect insane amounts of vulgarity, but not in this book. Dickert keeps the vulgarity to a minimum.
The writing style is charming. The chapters are easy to read and is capped off with moments of the past that gives insight int0 the characters and their situations
My favorite part is that Troop 99 consists of those boys who need extra love, who are outliers, who need a family. The boys' journey from a smish smash of character to a real troop, carries this tale. I was glad to see such a book written for boys.
Rambunctious and fun, this would be a great book for the boy reader you know. Heck, even the girls might just get a kick out of it. Just don't let them decide to create their own Golden Plunger!
The Quest for the Golden Plunger; The Misadventures of the Adventure Rangers starts with a video game session and ends in the wild woods of adventurer Rangers Camp.
Fifteen-year-old Do-Over wants to win Camp Winnebago's coveted Golden Plunger to score a free trip high-adventure camp with his fellow Adventure Rangers. The troop's nemesis Troop 100 plans to making their life hell. Troop 100 is run like a military branch while 1000 is a team of those that will never be popular. Their behavior escalates to a gross incident in the bathroom.
But the people aren't the only challenge. Troop 99 will have to survive a twisted game of paintball, outrun a rabid buck with tasers mounted to its antlers, and avoid getting in trouble with the camp staff if they want to stand a chance at winning the Golden Plunger.
Jackson Dickert creates a book that both fun and humorous but also sweat with a real heart. Since it's centered on boys, you might expect insane amounts of vulgarity, but not in this book. Dickert keeps the vulgarity to a minimum.
The writing style is charming. The chapters are easy to read and is capped off with moments of the past that gives insight int0 the characters and their situations
My favorite part is that Troop 99 consists of those boys who need extra love, who are outliers, who need a family. The boys' journey from a smish smash of character to a real troop, carries this tale. I was glad to see such a book written for boys.
Rambunctious and fun, this would be a great book for the boy reader you know. Heck, even the girls might just get a kick out of it. Just don't let them decide to create their own Golden Plunger!