Camp Creepy Time: The Adventures of Einstein P. Fleet

by Gina Gershon and Dann Gershon

Book Overview

Einstein P. Fleet is forced to attend camp in the desert despite his best arguments, and man-eating spiders are the least of his problems. The camp is haunted, the campers are turning into monsters, and his counselors are aliens plotting to sell the kids to an intergalactic zoo (once they completely transform into mummies, vampires, and werewolves). He writes home and relays his predicament, but his parents don?t believe a word of it?even though it?s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399247378
• ISBN13: 9780399247378
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

VERY CREEPY (and funny)!!!

You simply can't go wrong with this wacky zany summer send-up. Einstein P. Fleet, a loner-nerd trapped at a hellish summer camp in the Mojave Desert, leads us through a wild storyline of escape, with monster costumes, vampires, werewolves and aliens all in the mix. This fast-paced, well-written farce is a quick, irreverent, hilarious read for kids and adult-kids. Highly recommended. It's no surprise that Dreamworks has this story in script development....Can't wait for the movie!

This book has it ALL

A wild and zany adventure with hilarious zingers and outrageous plot twists, this book has it all: a teenage blogger, conspiracies, aliens, twinkies, morons, projectile vomit and an exciting ending. A resentful, smart-mouthed (and smart) nerd must save his fellow campers from a fiendish plot, if he is to escape summer camp alive. No wonder Dreamworks secured the movie rights even before the book was in print!

A book for all ages.

I just finised the book. What fun! This is exactly the book to catch the attention of my middle-grade grandson, who I plan to encourage to read more this summer, because he isn't (yet) much of a reader. He will LOVE the complaints about camp, the gross jokes -- he and his friends will relate to the book so much, they will eat it up. Without giving the plot away, there is a great twist two-thirds of the way through the book -- something so unexpected, it gives the book a whole new turn of events. Highly recommended. M. C. Thorp

A PERFECT SUMMER ADVENTURE

A friend gave me this book and I spent a weekend on a fantastic adventure enjoying the ups and downs of Einstein P. Fleet. For younger readers this is an excellent book with all the trimmings (werewolves,vampires, aliens, ghosts) and an excellent cast of characters as well. I highly recommend this book as a light summer read or for all younger readers who are looking for a proper adventure. It is well written with good plot lines and story arcs. Well Done.

A must for your summer reading list!

Original, intelligent, out of this world.... Summer camp in the Mojave Desert? Aliens, monsters, werewolfs, ghosts, strange experiments? Einstein P. Fleet, the protagonist, is an original - likeable, endearing, pathetic and heroic all at the same time. At times, I literally laughed out loud! A great read to share with the kids or an opportunity for you to revisit your days at sleep away camp. I highly recommend this quirky and cleverly written novel. Cudos to the Gershons!