The Fort
The Fort
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The Fort

Written by Gordon Korman
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8 - 12
Reading age
256
Page count
224
Words per page
~781L
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Jun 28, 2022
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From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school “band of brothers” – five friends who need to stick together after they set up a hideout in an abandoned bomb shelter and discover that the only way to be true friends is to reveal their secrets and help each other out.The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction – power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends – Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ – meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray – Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn’t have any friends yet.Ricky is the one to find the strange trap door that’s appeared in the middle of the woods – the door to an old bomb shelter, unearthed by the hurricane. Inside, the boys find a completely intact underground lair, complete with electricity, food, and entertainment (in the form of videocassettes). The boys vow to keep the place’s existence to themselves.Things soon get tense. Some bad locals keep snooping around. And what started out as a fun place to escape soon becomes a serious refuge for one of the kids who is trying to avoid an abusive home situation. In order to save the shelter, the friends must keep its secret… and in order to save themselves, they’re going to have to share their individual secrets, and build the safest place they can.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781338629149
    Publication Date
    June 28, 2022
    Publisher
    Scholastic Press
    Page Count
    256
    Words Per Page
    224
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Est. Lexile® Level
    ~781L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~S
    ATOS® Book Level
    5
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    9
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    516061
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG+

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