A Week in the Woods

Mark Chelmsley IV has never felt truly at home anywhere. With only four months left in the fifth grade before he starts at an exclusive boarding school, Mark doesn't think it's even worth trying to settle in. What changes his mind is a Week in the Woods -- the annual school camping trip. But even there, things go wrong. Mark covers for a friend and lands himself in Big Trouble: his nemesis, science teacher Mr. Maxwell, suspends him. Just as Mr. Maxwell is about to take Mark home, Mark runs off into the woods, putting his survival skills -- and Mr. Maxwell's -- to the test.

<b>Andrew Clements</b> is the author of four novels about school life, <i>Frindle, The Landry News, The Janitor's Boy, </i> and <i>The School Story, </i>which are all available from Listening Library. <i>Frindle </i>won the Christopher Award and has appeared on more than thirty-five state award lists. <i>The Landry News</i> is a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller. Mr. Clements taught in the public schools near Chicago for seven years before moving east to begin a career in publishing. Now a full-time writer, he lives in central Massachusetts with his wife and their four children.