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mschrock8's review
3.0
Sorta silly, but the title pulled me in. Didn't remind me as much of Little Hoosier Camp as I thought it might.
rchluther's review
2.0
This is not the worst book I have every read. However, it was ridiculously cheesy and total fan-fiction. The premise is that there is a family frontier farm vacation for the summer, where families live like it is 1890. Reminded me almost immediately of PBS "Frontier House". Gen, the 13 year old protagonist, sneaks in a phone to text her best friend back home. Best friend starts posting the texts as a blog about the vacation.
There is the family drama, the friendship drama, the competing drama, the boy drama. The story just keeps on rolling round and round, with a ridiculous ending that had me cracking up.
But again, I've read worse. It was an amusing quick read on vacation, and I will grab almost anything that has mentions of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
There is the family drama, the friendship drama, the competing drama, the boy drama. The story just keeps on rolling round and round, with a ridiculous ending that had me cracking up.
But again, I've read worse. It was an amusing quick read on vacation, and I will grab almost anything that has mentions of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
webz's review
2.0
What I'm thinking right now: Should I write a review for a book I never really got into? It was okay. I can even say I liked it. But still...leaning towards okay. Now 2 years ago I'd probably have loved this book! But now....against all odds I've apparently *sucks in breath in slight horror*
GROWN UP A BIT(or even more than just a "bit"!). Yes I know, shocking. Horrifying. Horribly surprising. And yet it still happened.
Aaaaaannnndddd so. Here's the actual review on this:
I'll take you way back. Like uh, 5 years ago or so. Or longer. Maybe add 2 years to that 5. Anyways...I was one of those kids who read the whole Little House on the Prairie series and loved/liked it. And get this: I wasn't forced to read the series. No, I read every book willingly and with much enthusiasm. I don't know what was wrong with me. I'm pretty sure I was like that with every book I happened to like.
So I already kinda knew what frontier life was like. And yet now, as a teenager my eyes have been OPENED TO THE TRUTH. Do you know how hard it would be to waste your whole summer living in 1800s?! Well now I do.
Notice they're all smiling.
O.o
If you've ever lived on a farm then you probably already have a good idea of what frontier life was like. Except you might have a cellphone whereas the poor people of the 1800s didn't.
So Gen discovers the horrors of frontier life but also finds the good. And the good kinda ends up outweighing the bad (surprise, surprise)
I just think this book is geared for pre-teens. It's not that it wasn't a good book, I just couldn't ever really get into it. So that's it. This is probably one of the shortest reviews I've ever made but I really don't know what else to say.......
GROWN UP A BIT(or even more than just a "bit"!). Yes I know, shocking. Horrifying. Horribly surprising. And yet it still happened.
Aaaaaannnndddd so. Here's the actual review on this:
I'll take you way back. Like uh, 5 years ago or so. Or longer. Maybe add 2 years to that 5. Anyways...I was one of those kids who read the whole Little House on the Prairie series and loved/liked it. And get this: I wasn't forced to read the series. No, I read every book willingly and with much enthusiasm. I don't know what was wrong with me. I'm pretty sure I was like that with every book I happened to like.
So I already kinda knew what frontier life was like. And yet now, as a teenager my eyes have been OPENED TO THE TRUTH. Do you know how hard it would be to waste your whole summer living in 1800s?! Well now I do.
Notice they're all smiling.
O.o
If you've ever lived on a farm then you probably already have a good idea of what frontier life was like. Except you might have a cellphone whereas the poor people of the 1800s didn't.
So Gen discovers the horrors of frontier life but also finds the good. And the good kinda ends up outweighing the bad (surprise, surprise)
I just think this book is geared for pre-teens. It's not that it wasn't a good book, I just couldn't ever really get into it. So that's it. This is probably one of the shortest reviews I've ever made but I really don't know what else to say.......
bookmarvel's review
2/23/2020
Okay so I just remembered that this book existed and I cannot believe that this book exists especially the name like its so fucking wild. I have no clue when I read this book (that's what this website is for but apparently I read it before I started using goodreads) but I remember I loved it so much it was wild.
Okay so I just remembered that this book existed and I cannot believe that this book exists especially the name like its so fucking wild. I have no clue when I read this book (that's what this website is for but apparently I read it before I started using goodreads) but I remember I loved it so much it was wild.
blogginboutbooks's review
4.0
This book has a fun premise and a light-hearted vibe that makes it an entertaining read. It gets far-fetched, but overall, it's a quick, enjoyable read about family, forgiveness, determination and community.
iamabibliophile's review
4.0
I started this one not knowing it was a YA book. I really enjoyed it. I secretly wanted to be Nora and wanted to kick her throughout the whole book though. :)
lornarei's review
4.0
Very fun read, had trouble putting it down at times. I'm unclear on one thing, though. Right before the tv crew shows up, Caleb wants to tell Jen something -- she thinks it's about Nora and him and she tells him she already knows. He looks confused and wants to know how she found out. Since he and Nora weren't an item, that obviously wasn't what he was going to tell her, but I didn't see any resolution to what it actually was. Did I miss something?
turrean's review
3.0
A light, enjoyable book on the theme of culture clash. Namely, our own, and how it's changed--or not--in the last 100 years.
jasmyn9's review
3.0
Imagine being a teenager, looking forward to summer vacation and soccer camp. Now how would you feel if you found out that this summer was going to be much different. This year you will be going to a family frontier camp. A camp that takes you back to 1890, and forces you to live that way all summer. The only saving grace is the cute boy, Caleb, that is staying in a cabin nearby.
Gen is furious at her parents for dragging her to frontier camp this summer. She has to weed corn, milk cows, and wash her clothes by hand. And worst of all she is missing her friends and soccer camp. But all is not a total lost as she has managed to sneak a cell phone in and sends regular text updates to her friends. All this backfires one day when her texts end up on her friend's blog for the whole world to read.
A quick and entertaining read that enjoyed. Reading about the antics of the various teenagers and children that are attending the frontier camp are fun and accurately show how I would have handled being cut off from civilization for two and a half months. I was able to appreciate all the main characters, even the ones I didn't like, and the background characters were developed to just the right level to contribute what they needed to the story. However, the style and conflicts were sometimes a bit predictable.
3/5
Gen is furious at her parents for dragging her to frontier camp this summer. She has to weed corn, milk cows, and wash her clothes by hand. And worst of all she is missing her friends and soccer camp. But all is not a total lost as she has managed to sneak a cell phone in and sends regular text updates to her friends. All this backfires one day when her texts end up on her friend's blog for the whole world to read.
A quick and entertaining read that enjoyed. Reading about the antics of the various teenagers and children that are attending the frontier camp are fun and accurately show how I would have handled being cut off from civilization for two and a half months. I was able to appreciate all the main characters, even the ones I didn't like, and the background characters were developed to just the right level to contribute what they needed to the story. However, the style and conflicts were sometimes a bit predictable.
3/5