Young Llama Thoughts
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Adventurous
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Christian Friendly
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Easy Reading
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Humerous
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Youth Appropriate
Overall
Review
This 2 book series is a fun mystery about secrets, scavenger hunts and friendship! This is a great start to a fun series!
This book is about Megumi Mizuno, a young girl who has been expelled from her last school for slacking off. She doesn’t care about anything since her mom passed. Now Meg is stuck at the “Last Chance Academy” under strict rules and hard classes. With no fun and limited access to the outside world, Meg is bored… Until a scavenger hunt begins full of clues, puzzles and danger.
This book is a fun read with plenty of mystery and puzzles to keep you reading till the end. It’s clean and funny, with a great focus on friendship and trust. I really loved how the characters had to learn together how to solve the clues and beat the scavenger hunt. This would be a great book for girls 8 and up!
There is one mention of a LGBT character in the book. On page 56, there is 1 sentence where a boy has a boyfriend. Disclaimer, I do not dislike LGBT people, however, I am a Christian and God is very clear in the Bible on that topic. So I do not support LGBT content. I am disappointed it is in the book. I suggest taking a pen and crossing out that sentence before giving this book to young kids.
Overall, this is a fun read and I can’t wait to see where book 2 takes the characters!!! Happy Reading! -The Young Llama Reader.
Pros
- An great adventure!!!
- Funny, interesting and suspenseful!
Cons
- LGBT Alert…
Ever since her mom passed away, twelve-year-old Megumi “Meg” Mizuno has been spiraling. After too many low grades and cut classes, she’s been expelled from school—apparently, everyone else has moved past her grief and expects the same from her. Her dad secures her a spot at the prestigious Leland Chase Academy, a boarding school in middle-of-nowhere New York, called the Last Chance Academy by its student body. If Meg can’t make it work there, she’ll be forced to live with her horrible aunt.
At first, Leland Chase seems like an average, if very strict, boarding school, though Meg tentatively warms up to her roommate and some of their classmates. Then, one night, a mysterious envelope appears under her door, inviting Meg and her roommate to participate in a scavenger hunt. The only rules: don’t get caught by faculty or staff and no cheating. The grand prize? A luxury stay at a fancy resort in California. And after learning her dad has plans to sell their family home—with all its memories of Mom—Meg knows she has to win the competition and use the trip’s one-on-one time to convince Dad they shouldn’t move.
Thanks to her mom, who taught her how to solve ciphers, Meg has a knack for puzzles she uses to get ahead in the hunt. But she quickly learns that her classmates seem to have their own sets of skills keeping them in the competition. And as they get deeper in the game, Meg and her fellow competitors realize the anonymous creator has their own agenda…and LCA isn’t quite what it seems.
