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Available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/EXIT-Apple-Grove-Gang-ebook/dp/B0088GV98A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346019262&sr=8-1&keywords=apple+grove+gang
The Apple Grove Gang is a series of books for kids ages 8-12. The author is Hamilton C. Burger.
School is out and it's summer in Apple Grove. Follow the antics of Benny Churchill and Bug Beetle and the rest of the gang as they take on every challenge that comes their way.
Review: No Exit-The Apple Grove Gang
Posted Aug. 17, 2012 Annie Johnson
No Exit is the 1st volume of The Apple Grove Gang by Hamilton C. Burger. The book follows Benny Churchill and Bug Beetle, fifth graders and best friends living in 1960. The story starts on the last day of school and the beginning of summer vacation. The boys go down to the community center to play, only to run into the Mayor, who turns out to be intent on closing down the center and the toll booth that funds it. That would put Cliff Beetle, the toll booth operator, out of a job and the community without Apple Grove Community Center. This is disastrous for the Apple Grove community, so the kids decide to put their all into fighting to keep the doors open. With help from other kids in the neighborhood, they brainstorm some other ways to come up with money only to come to the conclusion that it is too much work for them to do. Instead, they take the fight to city hall to get back the community center.
The book is interesting for younger readers who show a particular interest in what it was like for their grandparents to grow up or just what it was like before computers, internet, and a lot of the technology that exists today.
The villains are sort of goofy in the nature of a children's book. For adults, this may be pretty funny, though the villains aren't developed so much to the point of drowning young readers in details. As in many children's fiction, the villains of the story are motivated by money and their own greed.
The book isn't very long and will surely keep a young reader's attention from start to finish. The characters are ones that many kids can identify with and may introduce young readers to historical fiction.
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