Daredevil Club

Daredevil Club (2006) by Pam Withers. 103 pages.
ISBN 10: 1-55143-614-0

Kip is living in Peever, a small town where there's not much to do. He started the Daredevil Club with his only friends - Caleb, Fraser and Vlad - and came up with the series of dares they were to complete. Each dare more dangerous than the last. The dares even gave them status as heroes and popularity at school. Adding to the challenge of completing dares, was to do them before the Wildmen.

During the fourth dare, a jump off a cliff into a lake, Kip smashed his leg on a rock. It's so severe he receives physiotherapy. He's making progress and then finds out that the clinic has to close before his therapy ends. On top of that, completing dares is more difficult and his membership in the club is threatened. Kip struggles with these two realities and discovers who his friends are.

This is a quick and exciting read, bringing the reader through dangerous episodes in a some dares. Although the reading level is 3.9, the plot is not patronizing and story is appropriate for 11 to 13 year olds.

This is an Orca Soundings book. These are high interest, low reading level books with appealing titles and covers and contemporary themes for middle and high school students.

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