Escape from Camp Boring

By Tom Mitchell

Tech-addicted kids escape camp to return a secret item, facing nature's challenges.

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288 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Will's tech addiction lands him in a rewilding camp, but he's got a bigger problem: a secret item belonging to his brother. With no contact to the outside world, Will and his new friends hatch a daring escape plan. Their mission? Navigate the wild woods, return the smuggled item, and survive the great outdoors. Can they outsmart nature and make it back in time, or will the wilderness prove too much for these unlikely adventurers?

From the publisher

A wild, laugh-out-loud adventure through the not-so-great outdoors, from the author of HOW TO ROB A BANK and THAT TIME I GOT KIDNAPPED. Ideal for readers aged 10 and up. After Will is caught listening to music on his phone in class again, his mum has had enough. Will is sent to a ‘rewilding’ camp in the middle of the woods for kids addicted to tech… Disaster.Not only is the camp a screen-free snooze-fest, Will realises he has accidentally taken something of his brother’s that he must return urgently. And with no way of contacting him, Will and his three new friends plot to escape the camp in the middle of the night, and embark on a ridiculous journey through the woods.The hapless heroes must make it back to civilisation in time to return Will’s smuggled cargo - and avoid being defeated by the great outdoors in the process…

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