The Fort - Gordon Korman
Category: Children
Tags: Children, General Fiction
From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school band of brothersfive 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 destructionpower outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friendsEvan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJmeet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a strayRicky, who is new to their town and school, and doesnt have any friends yet., Ricky is the one to find the strange trap door thats appeared in the middle of the woodsthe 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 videocass
