The reckless club - beth vrabel

From the award-winning author of Caleb and Kit comes a new novel described as The Breakfast Club set in an assisted living facility.

Just about every reader can identify with someone in this book.

FYI: I identified with more than one.

--Jonathan Rosen, author of Night of the Living Cuddle Bunnies.

From award-winning author Beth Vrabel comes a new middle-grade Breakfast Club drama set in a old folks home.

On the last day of middle school, five kids who couldnt be more different commit separate pranks, each sure they wont be caught and they cant get in trouble.

Theyre wrong.

As punishment, they each have to volunteer one beautiful summer day-the last one before school-at Northbrook Retirement and Assisted Living Home, where theyll push creamed carrots into toothless mouths, perform the worlds most pathetic skit in front of residents who wont remember it anyway, hold gnarled hands of peach fuzzed old ladies who relentlessly push hard candies, and somehow forge a bond with each other that has nothing to do with what theyve done and everything to do with who theyre becoming.

All the action takes place in the course of this one day, with each chapter one hour of that day, as the five kids reveal what theyve done, why they did it, and what theyre going to do now.