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Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours in his basement It s not too hard for him to get away with it until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down around him Oops.It s time for some serious damage control so Cameron and his friends invent a fake school club that will make it seem like they re doing good deeds instead of slacking off The problem Some kids think the club is real and Cameron is stuck being president.Soon Cameron is part of a mission to save a beaver named Elvis from certain extinction Along the way, he makes some new friends and some powerful new enemies The guy who never cared about anything is now at the center of everything and it s going to take all his slacker skills to win this round. Read Slacker – kino-fada.fr E ARC from EdE ARC from EdelweissCameron lives to play video games, but when he is so concentrated on one that he doesn t take a casserole out of the oven and the local firemen respond and ax through the front door, his parents are NOT pleased His parents are concerned because he does nothing else, and while they don t take his video console out into the backyard and set fire to it like I would , they demand that he participate in other activities at school to get him out of the basement Wit E ARC from EdE ARC from EdelweissCameron lives to play video games, but when he is so concentrated on one that he doesn t take a casserole out of the oven ...Originally posted at Log Cabin LibraryCameron Boxer isn t a hard worker unless you count working hard at not doing his homework He would much rather spend his time playing video games with his friends and training for the East Coast gaming championships is his top priority Yet, all this gaming is distracting him from everything else going on around him and it ends up having huge consequences when he practically burns the house down Cameron s parents then lay down the law and tell him he needs Originally posted at Log Cabin LibraryCameron Boxer isn t a hard worker unless you count working hard at not doing his homework He would much rather spend his time playing video games with his friends and training for the East Coast gaming championships is his top priority Yet, all this gaming is distracting him from everything else going on around him ...This was a cute little read about a slacker who learns that doing something isn t really that bad I think the playing video games all the time will resonate with my students, so hopefully they see that there areimportant things like our main narrator, Cam Unfortunately, I feel like there are a few too many narrators point of views from Jennifer and the principal seem to just muddy things up a bit and will make it con...Cameron Boxer, 13, has worked hard to perfect his lifestyle exerting as little energy and effort as possible on anything this isn t related to gaming and exerting maximum energy and effort on gaming for hours on end, all in service of his goal winning the Rule the World tournament and defeating his nemesis the Evil McKillpeople.Only when dinner starts to burn and the house fills with smoke, and Cameron is so wrapped up in the online game he s playing in the basement with his online friends t Cameron Boxer, 13, has worked hard to perfect his lifestyle exerting as little energy and effort as possible on anything this isn t related to gaming and exerting maximum energy and effort on gaming for hours on end, all in servic...When Cameron Boxer s parents force him to get off the couch and do something, he has the perfect plan create a fake club with a real website.The club has the most open ended name ever the Positive Action Group, what is that even supposed to mean and it pledges to act positively to help our school community There isn t even a working contact us link, because, well, in the off chance that somebody finds the website and actually wants to help.As it turns out, another student bent on saving When Cameron Boxer s parents force him to get off the couch and do something, he has the perfect plan create a fake club with a real website.The club has the most open ended name ever the Positive Action Group, what is that even supposed to mean and it pledges to act positively to help our school community There isn t even a working contact us link, because, well, in the off chance that somebody finds the website and actually wants to help.As it turns out, another student bent on saving a beaver and a guidance counselor happen upon the Positive Action Group, and overnight the fake club becomes the most popular...This review is also available on my blog, Read Till Dawn.Who doesn t love a good Gordon Korman I know I certainly do This was a great read to kick off the summer with, because it s just so fun.Now, the cynical part of me does has to say that Slacker is similar to many of Korman s other books, especially Ungifted and A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag both of which I like , partly just because I read them first It s beginning to feel like Korman is kind of recycling components of hi This review is also available on my blog, Read Till Dawn.Who doesn t love a good Gordon Korman I know I certainly do This was a g...What do video gamers, beavers, and ziti have in common Wellyou d have to read Slacker to get the full story, but suffice to say that together they all contribute to the demise of Cameron Boxer who has perfected his slacker lifestyle Together with his gamer friends, Pavel and Chuck, they intend to defeat their archnemisis, Evil McKillpeople But, Cam s carefully crafted plans come to a screeching halt when he forgets to take the baked ziti out of the oven, per his mother s instuctions, and n What do video gamers, beavers, and ziti have in common Wellyou d have to read Slacker to get the full story, but suffice to say that together they all contribute to the demise of Cameron Boxer who has perfected his slacker lifestyle Together with his gamer friends, Pavel and Chuck, they intend to defeat their archnemisis, Evil McKillpeople But, Cam s carefully crafted plans come to a screeching halt when he forgets to take the baked ziti out of the oven, per his mother s instuctions, and nearly burns the house down Yikes His parents ban his gaming until he can show that he can be responsible They insist he get involved at school and join in a club, sport, or some other worthwhile activity that doesn t in...I love this book It s as good as Ungifted, Gordan Korman is such an amazing author I really enjoyed reading about Cameron, a slacker sell his life, struggle with is new PAG club He is a video game obsession and video game is his life, but when his parents started to get mad about him not doing well in school and not doing any extra curricular activities and threatened to take his video games away, he and his friends hacked into the school website and created a new lab called the positive acti I love this book It s as good as Ungifted, Gordan Korman is such an amazing author I really enjoyed reading about Cameron, a slacker sell his life, struggle with is new PAG club He is a video game obsession and video game is his life, but when his parents started to get mad ab...I do not enjoy video games But I GREATLY enjoyed this book, especially as it got moving during the second half of the book and I stopped being completely irritated by Cam s attitude Every kind of reader will be able to identify with one of the characters as ...This book is very funny, and can describe your average middle school kid in a story I suggest reading this, as it is very realistic and has characters that you can connect to astoundingly to I am on page 100, and I would easily give this book a 5 5.

Slacker
  • 26 April 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 240 pages
  • 0545823153
  • Gordon Korman
  • Slacker