Jeff Strand

A Hunger Games-style survival school for teens is about to get deadly serious...or seriously deadly. Take your pick. Everything 16-year-old Henry was dreading about survival camp turns out to be true—or even worse. The only thing to help get him through is his equally unathletic best friend Randy and the discovery of a girls' music camp just down the path. But they'll soon have a lot more than obnoxious "drill counselors" and too many push-ups to worry about. The owner of Strongwoods Survival Camp has taken out some loans with very dangerous men to keep himself afloat, and when a trio of them show up to collect, things go bad. Very bad. With a camp now full of armed killers, survival now has a whole new meaning for the campers...

I Have a Bad Feeling About This

Amanda Kordeliski

Cute story. Good for reluctant readers. The plot was really unbelievable near the end.

Lynn Braden

I Have a Bad Feeling about This is about Henry Lambert, avid video game player, who is sent to Strongwoods Survival Camp by his parents so that he learns to become more of a man. He encounters Max who runs the camp, who is more like a drill sergeant than a camp counselor. Many comical events occur at camp as the other four campers are just about as adept at wilderness survival is Henry is. Things become serious, however, when the camp's owner doesn't pay off his debt and the gangster who holds the loan comes to the camp looking to get his money one way or another. 
This is a wonderful coming of age book in which Henry not only confronts many of his greatest fears and weaknesses, but he also gets a chance at "winning the girl." Henry's voice is sarcastic and funny all the way through the book, both in his experiences at Strongwoods and also in the behind the scenes conversation about the movie that was supposedly made from the book. This book would truly make a great movie, and I'm surprised that some adventurous filmmaker hasn't snatched up the rights and started production. Overall, a funny well written book with lots of twists and turns.

I Have a Bad Feeling About This

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