HideoutGordon KormanS. Wendell Palomino also known as Swindle decides to return to Cedarville to take back his dog Luthor. He does not want Luthor because he is an animal lover but because Luthor is a rare breed of dog worth a lot of money. Luckily, as Swindle returns, Griffin Bing and his friends are heading out to summer camp for two weeks. Knowing that Swindle is planning to steel Luthor from Savannah, Griffin makes a plan to sneak Luthor around the three camps that he and his friends are going to so Swindle can not find him. This book is a great story added to the series. I really like how Griffin and his friends work together well. My favorite part of the story is when one of the workers Swindle hired captured Luthor so Griffin and his friends all get together and make a plan to rescue Luthor by using all of the friends different skills. I think others should read this book because it keeps the reader in suspense during the whole story. It is also a very intriguing book making you wonder darning the while book what will happen to Luthor. Hideout would attract readers who are ten or older that enjoys reading about realistic fiction or has read any other books in the series. When the nasty Wendell Palomino, aka Swindle, appears at Savannah's house with a paper saying that Luthor is really his, and he plans to take him back, since Luthor came to national attention in the last book and Swindle suspects he is a very valuable dog. The kids decide to hide Luthor, but since all six of them are off to summer camp, this is a problem. Why not bring a giant dog with them to the woods and hide him at camp? Griffin takes him first, but when he's in danger of being found out, the group manages to finagle delivery trucks to head over to Camp TaDa! where Logan and Melissa are studying theater. It's not easy to hide a dog there, but between Logan's acting and Melissa's technical skill, they manage. Eventually, Luthor has to be sent on to Ben and Pitch, and that's when Swindle and his hired lackeys close in on the group. When all of the kids disappear from their respective camps so that they can keep Luthor sout of his clutches, all of the parents end up coming to the rescue while just trying to make sure their children are safe.Strengths: This was a wild and completely unrealistic romp-- but not so totally out of the realm of possibility! Savannah calming Luthor down via iPod, hiding a giant dog in a theater, even getting rides on the various delivery trucks are all things that particularly clever kids could pull off. There is nonstop action and humor in these books, and Korman is an expert at weaving middle grade stories.Weaknesses: While a wide variety of my students likes these books, this series is not my favorite work by Korman. He does stand alones so well.
What do You think about Hideout (2013)?
Four stars given by Andrew (8). Andrew's mom liked it, too. :-)
—Pieliver321
This Book was One of the Best In the Series. I really loved it.
—hayl3y
