A WEEK IN THE WOODS by Andrew Clements

If you like mysteries and the outdoors then this is the book for you just like it was for me. When I read this book I liked the whole book I just couldn’t pick my favorite part. Mark is a rich boy who moved to another house from Scarsdale, New York to Whitson, New Jersey. Now everybody knows that kids don’t like moving to new places after getting used to their old place. While this is happening, at school Mark notices that kids are strange because they wear Wal-Mart clothes and are picked up in cars such as minivans and jeeps while he has fancy clothes and gets picked up with a Mercedes just like his old friends back in Scarsdale did. He also thinks the school is lame because he already knows the things they teach him and the teachers are mean, especially that science teacher, Mr. Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell has more things to worry about than Mark, like the week in the woods he has planned. A Week in the Woods is a Hardy Elementary favorite that Mr. Maxwell plans every year so that the whole fifth grade heads to Gray’s Notch State Park for a week outdoors. But there Mark gets in trouble because he was holding a knife. The problem is that Mr. Maxwell doesn’t know that it is not really his; it is his friend’s, Jason. Now Mr. Maxwell has commanded Mark to go to his van so Mr. Maxwell can take Mark home. While Mr. M is talking to Leon, Mark runs off into the woods and gets lost. Now he has to survive on his own. To find out if Mr. M finds Mark and if everything goes right read A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements.
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