The Lost Deer Camp

Hometown Hunters #6

by Lane Walker

Hometown Hunters The Lost Deer Camp Book Learning Redemption, life-changing, and hope Who This Book Is Great Reading Age 8 - 14 Book Bronze Moonbeam Children's Book Award Width x 5.25" x 7.5" Number of 152 Pages Cover Softcover Back Cover Tucker Thompson is just an ordinary 8th grader from Detroit, Michigan. He loves school and baseball. Everything seems great for the left-handed pitcher with a big, breaking curveball. That is, until one dreadful event changes his life. Tucker learns that his parents are getting divorced. If that wasn’t bad enough, his mom is making a move. He will be forced to attend a new school, across town in the inner city of Detroit. Struggling to handle his anger, Tucker does the only thing he can think of to get his parent’s cause trouble. Not everyone at his new school finds him entertaining, especially the principal, Mr. David. After pulling off the prank of the century, Tucker gets kicked out of school and shipped off to live with his Uncle Ed and Aunt Loretta in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The U.P. is a far cry from the concrete jungle of Detroit. But Tucker quickly realizes there is something magical and mysterious about Uncle Ed’s place. He is warned early and often by his uncle to never venture into the West Woods. But why? Is Uncle Ed hiding something? One day, Tucker discovers a creepy, old sign—one final warning of danger. What he finds hidden in the woods will change his life forever!

Genres: Childrens, Middle Grade

153 pages, Paperback

Published September 2, 2016

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

My son liked it. Simple read with many life lessons. I, as a divorced parent, didn't like the ending. I felt like it gives kids of divorce unrealistic expectations but that may just be me being cynical.

[Hunter T · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Lost Deer Camp is a very good book. What happens is Tucker goes to his Uncle's Ed cabin in Upper Pennsylvania which is called U.P. He moved to the U.P. because he was messing around in school a lot because of his parents divorce. His parents divorce caused him to be sad a lot and mess around a bunch at school. He gets to go out in the wild hunting with his Uncle Ed. When he shoots a deer and gets lost in the west woods tracking it. He found that his Uncle was hiding a deer camp in the west woods where he got lost. The deer camp ended years ago because Uncle Ed and one of his friends were fighting about a deer. So Tucker got all the guys besides Preacher to come back for one year and have a good time and go hunting. During this whole story Tucker is reading a book about deer camp.
The author is a very good one because he does alot of things that I can feel. He makes the book feel like the reader is the narrator. It is very very easy to understand so that is what I think makes it a good book. When you can understand it with your mind and imagination.
You should read this book because it is easy to understand. It is an interesting book to understand though. I had to think about it and there are so many other things in the book that you would want to read about. The cool thing about this book is it's in a series of books. So you can read a lot more books by Lane Walker. I encourage you to read this book. I would give it a 10/10.

[Cooper Osterhaus · Rating 4 out of 5]

I give the Lost Deer Camp 4 stars because The Lost Deer Camp is a powerful, heart-warming story of a troubled boy whose life is changed by the healing power of nature and family. I enjoyed Lost Deer Camp for its adventurous and mysterious plot. I enjoyed that this book was about hunting because I also like to hunt. In the book the boy, Tucker Thompson, had to go live with his grandfather. His grandfather was a big hunter and wanted to teach Tucker how to hunt. Tucker ended up enjoying his time hunting with his grandfather. I think this book is for ages 9 to 15 but I think that any age would like this book for its plot twists and its exciting experience and adventure. Kids that like the outdoors and adventures would like reading this book.

[Carolyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a hunter myself I felt that this book was very intriguing and engaging and kept me turning pages. If you enjoyed this book I really recommend the other books in this series, and if you enjoy all outdoor activities like I do I also recommend the fishing books written by the same author.

[Jake Hessler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing book and a great story about a kid hunting in a deer camp and i would highly recommend this book if you like the outdoors and hunting fishing.

[Alex Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

more people should read this it went from a good kid to a bad kid to a good kid again

[Tina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would recommend this series to anyone. I read this whole series to my son and we enjoyed them.

[Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this book was excelent and very good.my favorite.you should look into reading this

[Kaye S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

**Audiobook and Paperback Read Along with my Son** A wonderful book I got to enjoy with my son! I was tearing up at the end. I absolutely love the Christian nuggets in this book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Anna Timmer · Rating 2 out of 5]

A book more about divorce and fueding adults than hunting...

[Dave Conroy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This young teen story embeds important life lessons within a relatable storyline. A worthwhile read!

[Corey Stevens]

The book I read was the lost deer camp by Lane Walker. This story takes place in present times and the main characters name is Tucker. Tucker loves playing baseball and is a very good pitcher. But one day when Tucker finds out his parents are getting divorced. He didn't take that very well. Tucker was very mad at his dad for giving up on the marriage. He quit playing baseball and then started getting in a lot of trouble. He had to move to a new school because of the divorce. At his new school he got in trouble a lot. One day him and another kid took jars and filled them with food making it smell really bad. Then at lunch right before the homecoming football game him and the other kid opened them up and got the bad smelling food all over the lunch room. Everyone started throwing up and the football players got puke all over their jerseys. Because of this Tucker was kicked out of school and his parents made him go live with his uncle Ed and aunt. At their house he behaved. He got fed really good meals and worked cutting wood with his uncle. Then his uncle took him hunting and he shot a nice deer. But his uncle always kept him from the west woods. Then Tucker found out what was in the west woulds. His uncle found him in the deer camp that he had been hiding. No one had come to the camp for years. But then Tucker and his uncle got everyone to come back for one last hunt. Then Tuckers parents decided to get back to Tucker and Tucker moved back home.