THE FORT
From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five friends who need to stick together after they set up a hideout in an abandoned bomb shelter and discover that the only way to be true friends is to reveal their secrets and help each other out.
The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction -- power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends -- Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ -- meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray -- Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn't have any friends yet.
Ricky is the one to find the strange trap door that's appeared in the middle of the woods -- the door to an old bomb shelter, unearthed by the hurricane. Inside, the boys find a completely intact underground lair, complete with electricity, food, and entertainment in the form of videocassettes . The boys vow to keep the place's existence to themselves.
Things soon get tense. Some bad locals keep snooping around. And what started out as a fun place to escape soon becomes a serious refuge for one of the kids who is trying to avoid an abusive home situation. In order to save the shelter, the friends must keep its secret... and in order to save themselves, they're going to have to share their individual secrets, and build the safest place they can.
Edad recomendada: A partir de 15 años.
KORMAN GORDON
Gordon Korman ha escrito más de cincuenta novelas para jóvenes y adolescentes. Entre sus favoritas se incluyen el bestseller número 1 del New York Times, "Las 39 Pistas: Una Nota Falsa", "Los Tres del Reclusorio", "El Hijo de la Mafia", "Nacido para el Rock" y "Educado". Aunque no jugó al fútbol americano en la preparatoria, Gordon ha sido aficionado y abonado toda su vida. Dice: "Siempre me ha fascinado la 'cultura del choque' en el fútbol americano y quería explorarla, no solo a través de los mejores momentos, sino también desde su lado más oscuro". Gordon vive con su familia en Long Island, Nueva York.
