The book Brain Camp, by Susan Kim is a very interesting book. The main character, Lucas, is a long-haired boy who breaks into cars and is a slacker. Jenna is a geek, and people consider her to be a freak because she acts very strange and weird. In Jenna's family, all of her relatives want to be doctors and lawyers and other jobs that require high levels of intelligence. Jenna doesn't seem to want to be a doctor or a lawyer. Both Lucas's parents and Jenna's parents try sending them to summer camps that can get them smarter. However, in the past, both of them were rejected by every summer program that their parents tried to get them into. This time, a tall stranger visits both Lucas's and Jenna's parents and offers them the opportunity of having their children enroll in a special summer camp that can prepare children for the SATs and other exams. Both Lucas's and Jenna's parents decide to enroll them. But when Jenna and Lucas set foot in Camp Fielding, they sense that something is wrong with the campers. At first, most of the campers seem just like them. Then, the campers seem to change from deeply dumb to suprisingly intelligent. They don't notice how gross the food is anymore, and they have deep interests in highly advanced subjects. Also, Lucas and Jenna notice lots of dead baby birds on the ground and feathers throughout the camp. They realize something isn't right at Camp Fielding, and they become determined to find out what it is.I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery books, because this book makes you want to finish the whole book in one sitting, due to the highly entertaining plot of the story. It makes you wonder if there actually are camps out there that can be so mysterious.
~Carson, Teen Book Reviewer
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