Lights Out at Camp What-a-Nut

Adventures in Odyssey #5

by Paul McCusker

"We have a three-strikes-and-you're-out policy here. You now have two strikes." Mark Prescott is not having a fun time at summer camp. First of all, he went there so he could talk with his best friend, Patti. But she only wants to discuss her new boyfriend. Then Mark finds he's sharing a cabin with Joe Devlin, Odyssey's biggest bully, who gets Mark into trouble with the camp's leaders. Mark grows irritated by the unfairness of his situation and Joe's obnoxious behavior. Yet Mark feels there must be some hidden reason Joe has become expecially bad. Finally, Mark and Joe find themselves paired in a treasure hunt that puts them in unexpected danger. Through his adventures in camp, Mark learns valuable lessons about friendship and how God uses one person to help another.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Christian

93 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 1993

About the author

Paul McCusker is a writer of many different kinds of things. You may know him from Adventures In Odyssey and Focus On The Family Radio Theatre. Or the Father Gilbert Mysteries. Or the Augustine Institute audio dramas Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi and The Trials of Saint Patrick. Or plays like The First Church of Pete's Garage and Catacombs. Or C.S. Lewis projects like The Chronicles of Narnia audio dramas or The Annotated Screwtape Letters. Or the film Beyond The Mask. Or lots of other dramas, novels, scripts and lyrics. He simply can't make up his mind what he likes to write.

Reviews

[Just a Girl Fighting Censorship · Rating 3 out of 5]

My least favorite book in the series so far, is it because it doesn't actually take place in Odyssey? This story takes place at a camp outside of town in the mountains. I LOVE SUMMER CAMP STORIES, so maybe it was that I had too high of expectations. The main plot and point of conflict could have taken place anywhere, i wish more was done to take advantage of the summer camp setting.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very quick easy read for 8 to 12 year olds that stresses the value of friendships.

During his week at Camp What-a-Nut, Mark finds himself getting irritated by Joe Devlin, Odyssey's biggest bully. Further, his friend Patti annoys him with her drooling over a young worker at the camp. In the end, Mark learns how God can use one person to help another.

[GheenGirls · Rating 5 out of 5]

Turtle: great! Return to library.

[Taren Young · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was my first time reading through a book in this much-loved Adventures in Odessey series

[Chris Umphryes · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've always been a big aio audio drama fan. this book wasn't great, but it is a middle grade book and I am a 31 year old man.

I wanted something easy and mindless, and this was that.

[Eldon Siemens · Rating 4 out of 5]

typical camp story between protagonist and antagonist, with Patti getting lost in the background story. it's sad how another marriage is seen to be breaking up, even as one gets back together. the fact they are in a book for kids shows how "normal" divorce had become already when it was written two decades ago