This book is about Jake Sherman. He doesn't want to
go to summer camp but his mom made him go. His friends don't want to go either but Jake's mom told their mom to go too. Jake's sister is very selfish because she took Jake's donuts. Then the bus arrives. Jake's friends' names are Josh and Andy.
While they are going to the camp, Jake sleeps. Then when he wakes up, the cool guys call him Sleeping Beauty. There is a dork named Peter that nobody likes.Jake, Peter, and the three cool guys share the same cabin. Everyone picks on Peter. The cool guys make Jake to pick on Peter too.
He puts a plastic bag on Peter's cup. Then the juice spills on him. He doesn't want to pick on Peter but he does it because he wants to fit in with the cool guys. Then when he sleeps and wakes up, he is on the bus again.He is trapped at camp. Then he knows what to do. He should teach Peter some self-defense
and everything will be back to normal.
He teaches him that. But he gets stuck for six days. Then Peter starts to defend himself. Then when Jake goes to sleep and wakes up, he is at the second day of camp. Everything went back to normal.

By: Grigor Papazyan
Marshall Fundamental/Pasadena

The book I read was Help I'm trapped in First Day of Summer Camp by Todd Strasser. I liked the story because the days keep repeating and each day it was funnier then the previous one. My favorite character was Josh. The story took place at camp and it was interesting because each day something different happened. I would recommend this book to other people because it was both funny and interesting.

My 9 yo boy loves this series so I gave this one a quick read and was very pleased. This particular book explores the problems of kids (boys in particular) as they try to firgure out how to behave when confronted with kids who seem 'cool' but are mean. The first day repeats itself for Jake until he gets it right. The first time he is mean to the oddball so he can be accepted by the 'cool' guys. The 2nd day he ends up starting a fight with the mean kids to defend the 'dork' they are picking on. The third day he gets it right by helping the 'dork' to stand up for himself and get the other kids who are standing by to unite against the two who really are mean, and force them to back off.

The book is written at just the right level for my 4th grader with a bit of humor and belevable dialogue. It amuses him and I am glad he gets an important message without feeling preached to.

This book is an important improvement to the SR arsenal for magical characters. It is unfortunate that this book wasn't released about 5 years ago!! It is _the_ book if you have someone that has never plyed a magical character in SR before. It gives an excellent explanation of SR magic. Other important features are multiple takes on how magic 'really' works, as well as expanded rules for both mages and phys-ads. I highly suggest using this as your primary SR magical resource, using the Grimoire2 as the book you go to when your characters mature sufficently to need all that fancy sutff.

This manual adds lots of flavor to the Shadowrun game. There are all types of new twists added to the standard magic system by this book. This book spends lots of time making magic much more personal. There are many tales of Lore from the perspective of the magician in this book. It also adds new twists to the Meta-Magics. It also nearly doubles the number of physical adept powers. This book also gives rules for many new and interesting totems. And, of course, there are many new spells.

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