Scouts

“I think Scouts should be a book that all kids should read. I am in 5th grade. I think all kids will like this story because of all the surprising events that made me want to keep reading” - 10 year old review

What an amazing adventure. It brought !e back to my younger years. It is one of the most fun books I've read. I guarantee whomever reads it will love it. I sure did!!!

Wonderful book..fast paced and had good characters, I read this before I sent if off to my 11 year old grandson who is an avid reader. I am hoping he'll enjoy it.

My grandson loved this book. It’s one of his favorites

Kids like the book packs

My son is enjoying this book! He read for 4 hours this week when his homework was only to read for 2 1/2 hours!

My son loved this book! He is doing his book report on this book now. Highly recommend.

I have been snowbound in the PNW for pretty much two weeks now, so I FINALLY had a chance to read this book.I’m a 4th grade teacher and mom to 3 (12,9,8), so this book is aimed at a target audience I spend a lot of time with.While in the end I gave it a 3-star, I think many young readers these days would give it 4 or 5.It’s an uncomplicated book with a basic lesson in friendship, a bit of coming of age, all set to a backdrop of a credible local adventure. This is the kind of book that would have gotten me out of my house and looking for a mystery to solve.This book is a pleasure read, and there’s nothing wrong with that.However, it could have been better.The language wasn’t very rich in this book. Not much figurative language at all. Action words that seemed destined for particular characters. Extremely basic character descriptions, which I always feel mixed about. On the one hand, any reader can picture themself in the story. On the other hand, I can’t get a visual on any of the characters really.And this is set in 1985. Do I hate this year? Nope. But with an exception of maybe 6 or so time marking artifacts being name-dropped, this could have been set in any time.And of those 6 or so references the author included an early mention of a Guns N’ Roses t-shirt in the book (set in summer of 1985 when the band only formed that year and didn’t have a contract until 1986) and a near-end reference to hand sanitizer (first consumer version was Purell but not until 1988). Am I details snob? A bit. These were glaring to me because I was around the same age in the mid 80’s as these characters and I definitely remember the artifacts that were referenced.Would modern readers care? No. So then why bother setting it in 1985 other than stripping out the use of modern technology?Finally, if you’ve ever watched Goonies then it will find some very, very tightly connected story elements. I mean VERY.I didn’t love nor dislike the book. It was okay for me and certainly a pleasure read for most. I don’t think I could recommend it at the 4th grade level (despite several very advanced readers in my class) because of some of the language. Themes are clearly MS and some late elementary girls would like that.Overall, it was an okay book and would make a good summer read for the 6-8th grade crowd. I would probably recommend pairing it with Goonies afterward and having a good compare and contrast conversation about theme and narrative elements ;)

Good story for all ages