Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Unplugged

 









Gordon Korman just gets middle grade fiction.  He just does - friendships, conflict that has some edge but not too much, snark.

In this book Jett has been sent with his "watcher" to Oasis for the summer after some shenanigans.  At Oasis all participants give up their technology and seek to become "whole".  Jett hates it.  But when one of the kids finds a lizard Jett, the girl, and some others start to take care of it and start becoming friends.  But what is Needles exactly?   Who is the mysterious millionaire in the nearby town?  And is everyone on staff at Oasis on the up and up?

For me, this wasn't the best Gordon Korman book I have read.  It took a bit to really get going for me.  That being said, I will talk it up as I do all his books because they hit that middle grade sweet spot.

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