BOOK: Fat Camp commandos by Pinkwater

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Pinkwater, Daniel. _ Fat Camp Commandos._Scholastic, 2001
[0-439-15527-4]
Here we have a bunch of fat kids sent off to a fat camp.  They
break out two weeks early and hide back at their town (very
unrealistic.)  While they the make war on thin people, weight-loss
doctors, and weight-loss programs.  Claiming that they are
beautiful as they are.  At the end they are caught by the police and
given an unusual sentence.  If you like Pinkwater's strange sense
of humor you might like this 88 page book with EXTREMELY short
chapters (many less a page or less.)  I found the first third of the
book to be hard to get into and also, at times, I thought Pinkwater
was trying too hard to get his "thin is not always beautiful"
message across.  Kids who like Pinkwater's zany brand of humor,
may like this one too.

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