| Friendship -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Students -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Camping -- Juvenile fiction. |
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Friendship, heart, and awkward middle-school humor come together in this laugh-out-loud adventure as a group of kids take a class trip that doesn't quite live up to their expectations. It's all fun and games until you lose cell service. When an epic class trip to "Wild Out," an Outward Bound-like adventure weekend involving rock climbing, kayaking, and zip lining, is announced, Danny Mack and his best friends are thrilled. But when one of the teachers gets sick and Danny's mean older brother volunteers to chaperone, the weekend seems doomed to be a disaster.When the group arrives at the campground, they discover that they'll be sleeping in tents instead of cabins, milking cows for their breakfast oatmeal, and using a toilet without modern plumbing OR TOILET PAPER. Not at all the adventure they thought it would be.Bestselling author Andy McNab and award-winning author Phil Earle join forces for the very first time, and the results are hilarious! Brilliantly illustrated by Robin Boydon, Get Me Out of Here! is full of laughs and heart, but at its core, it's a story of friendship, resilience, and determination.
Author Notes
A former member of the crack elite force the Special Air Service (SAS), Andy McNab was involved in both covert & overt special operations on five continents, including joint ops with Delta Force, the FBI's HRT & the DEA. McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he left in 1993.
After the non-fiction books based on his SAS experiences, "Bravo Two Zero" (1993) & "Immediate Action" (1995), McNab turned to fiction with "Remote Control" (1997) & "Crisis Four" (1999). He lectures to security agencies & remains closely involved with the intelligence communities on both sides of the Atlantic.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
Danny's inclination toward dangerous feats makes a school trip one catastrophe after another. Always up for a thrill, sixth grader Danny, who is white, is excited to go on the end-of-the-year trip to Tickledown Farm. It promises students a chance to "go wild," with kayaks and rapids, zip lines and treehouses, and even a steep mountain to climb and then jump from the top of. It will also give Danny a break from his older brother and nemesis, Dylan, who's 18 and about to enter the Army. Though it's funny at times, the book's pacing is unfortunately set askew, giving over a third of the book to Danny's exploits trying to raise money for the trip and often sacrificing logical plot development to a forced cleverness. Unrealistically, Dylan is chosen as a chaperone, and, starting with giving Danny nettles to use as a toilet-paper substitute, he repeatedly sabotages all of Danny's activities, turning them into disasters. The insistence that readers suspend disbelief remains high throughout, as these city kids don't seem to know the difference between a cow and a rhinoceros, expect tents to come with light switches and internet modems, and assume they can use Uber while on a hike. The book ends with no real resolution or character growth. The frequent grayscale cartoons present most characters as white, with a few side characters of color. Unfortunately unsuccessful in its absurdity. (Fiction 8-11) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.