There, he witnesses fellow inmate Tippy Tinkletrousers (aka Professor Poopypants) escape in a giant Robo-Suit (later reduced to time-traveling trousers). To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”). Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. Thus, although the pace is brisk, the characters are one-dimensional and hard to care about, especially the selfish Sandy, who never changes or gets her comeuppance.įor a more gripping and nuanced portrayal of individuals pushing and pulling together, try Fallout by Todd Strasser (2013) And as in the first book, there is no before or after for this crew, only the catastrophe and how they cope.
Readers may question why a quake causing significant damage on an island that is visible from the mainland and the site of one of the region’s most recognizable landmarks would not spark media coverage, parental concern and subsequent search. Part 1 describes the cave-in 2, the desperate dig-out 3, survival without food, water or means to communicate. As in series opener Crash (2014), the book is broken into three parts, each starting with a survival tip. A bizarrely destructive earthquake (Maine is hardly a hotbed of tectonic activity) hits while the group is exploring the island’s Civil War–era fort, trapping them. In this case, the setting is Maine’s Hog Island Ledge, where six students and two teachers camp for five days. Meanwhile, the person who delivered them to the site conveniently dies before communicating the coordinates. To signal the severity, someone dies another is critically injured a third risks everything to get help.
With this second book in the Stay Alive series, youngsters will see a formula emerge: A group of children in the care of mostly ineffective adults are in a remote location when disaster strikes.
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