Book Review: Brain Camp by Susan Kim, Laurance Klavan & Faith Erin Hicks

Something's not right at Camp Fielding.

Jenna's a secretly bright underachiever with two doctors for parents and a sister who's going to Yale. At 14. Lucas is a lazy slacker with a bad attitude who breaks into cars for fun. His dad's in jail, and his mom just yells a lot. Both of them have been rejected from every summer camp and program they applied for. So when a mysterious stranger tells Jenna's parents and Lucas's mom that two campers have unexpectedly withdrawn from Camp Fielding, their parents can't ship them off fast enough.

The only thing Jenna and Lucas have in common is how much they hate Camp Fielding. They're also the only two who seem to notice that there's some seriously weird stuff going down. What's with all the dead baby birds? Why are there feathers everywhere? How is it possible that slacker kids are becoming brilliant zombies overnight? Why do the counselers sneak into the cabins at night with huge hypodermic needles?

When Jenna and Lucas decide to sneak out to get some real food from the Snack Shack down the highway, they stumble across a building hidden in the woods behind the camp. When they glimpse the campers who supposedly withdrew from camp inside with something really, really wrong with them, they know they have to figure out what's going on. But will they be able to figure it out before they start sprouting feathers and calculus equations?

This graphic novel is a fun, creepy read, just in time for Halloween. For anyone who's ever been a little suspicious about what really does down at summer camp for geniuses, check out Brain Camp!

Megan
(Now reading The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey, which has the highest gross-out factor of any book I've ever read. I'm serious. Do NOT snack while reading this book!)

P.S. If you like the artwork in Brain Camp, check out Faith Erin Hicks's webcomic, Wolverine Goes Grocery Shopping. Awesome!

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