Camp Shady Crook, Lee Gjertsen Malone
Camp Shady Crook, Lee Gjertsen Malone
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Camp Shady Crook

Author: Lee Gjertsen Malone

Narrator: Aimee Lilly

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 01/28/2020


Synopsis

It’s Ocean’s Eleven set in a summer camp as two kids try to one-up each other in a con competition at a camp that isn’t quite what it seems…

For Archie, the start of summer means another stint at Camp Shady Brook, where there is a lot more to the camp than meets the eye—just like Archie and his now blended family. But thanks to a con Archie developed last year, he’s finally somebody…and he’s not going to lose that status to the new girl, Vivian.

For Vivian, thanks to an incident That Shall Not Be Named or Spoken Of, her summer of exotic travels with Mom and Dad has turned into traveling to a dump of a summer camp in the middle of nowhere.

But thanks to perfect timing, Vivian soon finds herself in a ring of kids trying to out-con each other—and discovers Camp Shady Brook is more like Camp Shady Crook. And when one final, massive con could cost Vivian the first friends she’s had in a while, can she and Archie figure out a way to make things right?

About The Author

Lee Gjertsen Malone is a Massachusetts transplant via Long Island, Brooklyn, and Ithaca, New York. As a journalist she’s written about everything from wedding planning to the banking crisis to how to build your own homemade camera satellite. Her interests include amateur cheese making, traveling, associating with animals, shushing people in movie theaters, kickboxing, and blinking very rapidly for no reason. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, daughter, and a rotating cast of pets.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lana

Camp Shady Crook is a very shady, and adventurous camp story, set in a run down dump for a camp! Archie and Vivian compete for the rights to hustle the other campers. According to Archie, the number one tip for pulling off a con... know your mark. They both get in over their head in a hustle that’s......more

Goodreads review by Lois

I was lucky to read an ARC of Camp Shady Crook by Lee Gjertsen Malone. I really loved this book--summer camp, an epic rivalry, appealing characters. It hit all the right notes for me. I can't wait to order a copy for my middle school classroom library.......more

*Book Received in Exchange for Honest Opinion/Review* I am kind of ashamed to admit how long it took me to read this book but alas I started it 10 days ago! I just finished this afternoon and let me just start off by saying the first two-thirds of the book is slow. I can't quite put my finger on it b......more

Goodreads review by Jenn

Nothing like spending a cold winter day escaping into a summer read. CAMP SHADY CROOK reminds me of the best of Louis Sachar: crisp, memorable characters, witty writing, and a distinctive setting. Camp Shady Crook is the best and worst of every camp I attended as a kid, but more than that, it's larg......more