This book starts out strong and doesn't let up until the end. I can't imagine how anyone could read this book and not laugh all the way through it!Camp Algonkian Island is every campers dream. Or so the counselors and the camp director, Mr. Warden, believe. None of them are prepared for Rudy Miller. Rudy doesn't want to be at camp; he's determined to go home and he'll do anything he has to do in order to escape 'Alcatraz'...
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This is one of the stories I remember with stark clarity from my childhood. I loved it and still do. It's one of the reasons I decided to become a writer. I highly recommend this book to anyone of any age. There's more to this story than what's on the surface. I think it speaks strongly about being the person you want to be, despite what everyone else thinks. Rudy Miller is as individual as a character gets. The...
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I can't believe that so many of Gordon Korman's books are out of print! Has the world lost its mind??? We need Gordon Korman! To keep us happy...to keep us laughing...to keep us alive!
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I first picked up "I want to go home!" when I was around 10. I loved it the first time just as I've loved it all the other 29 odd times I've read it. I wish I could say I was exaggerating but I'm not. Once I even picked up the book again and read it twice in the same afternoon! Rudy Miller is someone who could never really exist. Like Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind. The power that these characters generate is so strong...
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