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Title:  A Week in the Woods
Author:  Andrew Clements
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Reviewer:   Doug B. '10

A rich boy named Mark Chelmsley moves to New Hamshire and goes to a school named Hardy Elementary. The 5th grade goes camping for a week in a program called a Week in the Woods which is organized by Mark's science teacher Mr. Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell does not really like Mark because he thinks he is a spoiled rich kid who is a know-it-all. At a Week in the Woods Mr. Maxwell goes into Mark's cabin and sees that Mark has a pocket knife in his hands so he tells Mark to pack his stuff and go into his truck. When Mr. Maxwell looks at the knife he sees that it is Mark's friend knife. He feels bad and goes to tell Mark but Mark isn't in the truck... read the book to find out what happens.

Winter 2003
Reviewer:   Alec L. '10

How would you feel if you got lost in the woods, well prepared, but lost and alone?  A Week In The Woods, by Andrew Clements, is about an extremely rich kid named Mark Chelmsley. Mark has lived in lots of different places due to his parents' business. Now he's moving to New Hampshire. New house, new school, lots of snow, but luckily, only for a couple of months. Mark tries to make the best of the school field trip, A Week In The Woods. But Mark gets framed for bringing a knife to the trip, and now he has run away. Will he survive?

I like this book a lot. It's another Clements novel, and I love his books. I can relate to  Mark going on A Week In The Woods, because it's kind of like College Settlement Camp. One thing I've noticed about Clements books is that the person on the cover is always holding something out in their hand, in this case, a flashlight. This book was very well written and I would recommend it to my classmates.                                  

Fall 2002
 




 

 

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