Barn dances, snow days, gymnasium catastrophes, and stink-bomb wars have already earned this ragtag group a reputation for turning ordinary mishaps into legend. Binder's third book in the Team Bomb Shelter series is a genuine tonal high-wire act that mostly works.
Barn dances, snow days, gymnasium catastrophes, and stink-bomb wars have already earned this ragtag group a reputation for turning ordinary mishaps into legend.
Binder's third book in the Team Bomb Shelter series is a genuine tonal high-wire act that mostly works.
However, the earlier episodic chapters, while funny, sometimes meander long enough to blunt the urge...
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Barn dances, snow days, gymnasium catastrophes, and stink-bomb wars have already earned this ragtag group a reputation for turning ordinary mishaps into legend. Binder's third book in the Team Bomb Shelter series is a genuine tonal high-wire act that mostly works. However, the earlier episodic chapters, while funny, sometimes meander long enough to blunt the urge...
When a bureaucratic snafu forces the graduating eighth graders back for one unwanted extra day of school, what should have been just another goofy footnote to their "worst" collection instead turns into the single most terrifying afternoon of their lives: An armed intruder brings the school to a standstill. The narrator's motor-mouthed, wisecracking voice carries the early comic chapters with real charm, and the ensemble's distinct personalities (the strategist, the scientist, the artist, the empath) pay off cleverly once the crisis hits.
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