The Order Of The Poison Oak (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Russel Middlebrook is back in this sequel to Brent Hartinger's GEOGRAPHY CLUB. This novel picks up right where the last one left off--Russel has been outed to his entire high school and now he is known as "the gay kid." Eager to escape, he jumps at the chance to be a summer camp counselor with his best friends Gunnar and Min as soon as the school year ends.While at camp, the three friends have their share of romantic adventures, intrigue, and mishaps pretty predictably. However, Hartinger does a good job of keeping enough twists in the plot to keep it interesting. He especially has added much more depth to the three main characters to make this novel better and more mature than its predecessor. A quick and fun read and a sequel that definitely is an improvement on the "just scratching the surface" nature of the first book. (read from mid-page 3 to top of page 2):"Move it, faggot" Nate Klane said as he ambled by me in the hallway.See? This was exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. I'd put up with this crap ever since we'd gone public with our Gay-Straight-Bisexual Alliance, and fankly, I was getting pretty tired of it. Yeah, yeah, sticks and stone can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. First of all, anyone who thinks that words can't hurt you have obviously never taken sophomore P.E. And second, did it ever occur to whoever wrote that stupid adage that hurtful words might be a pretty good indication that sticks and stones are on the way? It's not like it's an either-or-thing, I mean, has there every been a case of sticks and stones that didn't also involve at least some words? All I can say is that the writer of that adage sounds pretty damn blase about getting his bones borken.It was four weeks from summer, and Russell is pretty psyched to get out of school.(read last 2 paragraphs of page 11)In spite of her teasing me, I was pretty happy. I was going to be spending the summer in a place called Camp Serenity with my two best friends. I was certain it was going to be two months of the peaceful, completely non-gay R&R that I so desperately needed.Looking back, I don't think I've been so wrong about anything in my whole entire life.
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