I Want To Go Home

I went to camp, once.
It was a five day affair in which I literally got 130 mosquito bites, was almost crushed by a falling tree, practically starved due to my picky eating, was nearly shot by an arrow, and almost froze to death.
It was not fun.
In fact, I was so homesick, so miserable, that I honestly considered taking off down the road and escaping. However, if I Want To Go Home taught me one lesson, it taught me that escaping camp is easier said then done. If it taught me two, then it taught me that Gordon Korman is awesome.
Admittedly, not all of Korman's books are great. I never liked the Swindle series, or the Dive books. (Also, you can't email him, you have to send a full out letter which is supposed to take three months to get to him and back!) However, when he gets them right, he gets them right! The Kidnapped and On The Run series, Schooled, and many other books of his are wonderful. However in my opinion, he only really struck gold with I Want To Go Home. Indeed, it's one of my favourite books of all time.
The book follows Rudy Miller; a stoic, literal boy with an incredible knack for seemingly everything. At the advice of his school's guidance department, Rudy is sent to camp Algonkian for the summer; perhaps, they think, he'll open up, ditch his constantly unenthusiastic attitude. Upon arriving, he meets Mike Webster, who, like Rudy, hates the camp. United by there dislike, they become friends. And although at first Mike participates in the camp activities, Rudy soon convinces him to take his way out; refusal to do anything.
 However there bunk warden, Chip, is less then enthusiastic about this idea. He tries to get the two involved in the activities going on; after all, there just homesick, and will soon snap out of it. Rudy and Mike have other plans. There obviously not going to be left in peace, and so they begin to hatch daring plans... escape plans. This, of course, will be difficult, especially since the camp is on an island far from the mainland. But Rudy is clever, and has more then a few tricks up his sleeve...
This book, as I've already mentioned, is wonderful. It's the funniest book I have ever read. No matter what I write here, I will not even get close to how wonderful the book is. So buy it. Read it. Study it. This book is amazing.

Thanks for reading,

-Mark