Wildside.

Jean-Patrick Summer Reading Book Review

Wild Side, by Steven Gould

This book is about four High School graduates that discover a secret passage. There are five main characters in this book their names are: Charlie, Joey, Marie, Clara, and Rick. Charlie is living on his Uncles farm since his Uncle mysteriously disappeared. His parents didn’t him living in his Uncles place even though they were a little bit worried. One of the big reasons Charlie moved to his Uncle’s farm was because he knew a secret so big that it was hard to even imagine it. Under his uncle’s farm there is a passage way that leads to a parallel world. By parallel I mean there are no humans, no buildings, no cars, nothing only nature: mountains, trees, animals, etc… Charlie isn’t sure weather he can share this big secret with his friends. He eventually finds a time where he can tell them, well he doesn’t really tell them he shows them. To get money for the expedition he sold passenger pigeons which he found on the wild side (A.K.A parallel world). Passenger pigeons are extinct in the normal world but on the wild side there are millions because there are no humans. So he sold them for about 30,000 or more each. To sell them and talk to the zoo’s he has to use pay phones otherwise they might trace the call and find and ask him questions about the pigeons. He eventually tells his lawyer so that he will be able to protect incase they have to go to court, and to protect the bank account. The team had to use fake names so that they wouldn’t be caught. Charlie bought a lot of equipment: he bought shotguns, fireworks, smoke grenades, pepper spray, and many more things. Charlie’s idea on how to make money on the wild side was to search for gold in a river. Clara, Joey, Marie, and Rick had to take flying lessons so that they would be able to fly one of the planes on the wild side. Once everyone was searching for gold in the river except for Rick who was in the control tower, Clara got attacked by a wild cat a big one. It dragged Clara into the water but Charlie was able to saver her. In total they got a little more than a million dollars. The mission was starting to get dangerous, there were some troubles between the friends sometimes but those troubles were usually quickly resolved. One day when they came out of the passageway they saw that the military had come to their house and that’s when the real trouble began. Earlier in the book Charlie found a secret switch that could open and close the passageway, and if you stood in the spot where the gate closed you would be chopped in half in a second. Now Charlie had to somehow take care of the army and at the same time try to keep his friends and family alive. This book was a real good book I couldn’t really stop reading it. This is one of the best adventure books that I have read in a while. I would recommend this book to all 8th grade readers because it is just a fun book to read. the content of your new page here.