Samurai Summer (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781477816547)

Looked at from the outside, the annual summer camp in the countryside seems idyllic. But for Kenny, a boy with a Samurai soul, it is no more than a prison camp, run by a sadistic woman who is sometimes helped by her salacious son, Christian. To escape the adults, Kenny and his "samurai" friends sneak out to the forest to build a secret castle. It's off-limits to the girls, but a female camper named Kerstin begs Kenny to show her the castle. But suddenly she disappears, and Kenny realizes something terrible must have happened to her. Something that points to the old woman who runs the camp but even more so to her strange, creepy son.

Author: Åke Edwardson
ISBN-10: 1477816542
ISBN-13: 9781477816547
Publisher: Skyscape
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2013
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2013 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 07/08/2013
School Library Journal 08/01/2013 pg. 97
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2013 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw