Kammie Summers had a fabulous life. She had friends, a big house, and skating lessons. After her father was arrested for embezzlement, her whole world changed.
She moves with her mother and older brother, Robbie, to Nowheresville, Texas. At her new school, she tries to be friends with Sandy, Mandy, and Kandy, a trio of mean girls. They initiate her into their club by having her stand on a piece of wood covering an old well. When the wood breaks, Kammie falls into the well and becomes stuck, alone with her thoughts.
As time passes, Kammie becomes hungry, thirsty, cold, tired, and oxygen deprived, and she begins to hallucinate. She has conversations with her Grandma and her father, spends a lot of time thinking about how she came to be in the well and is kept company by a French-speaking coyote, zombie goats, and a flesh-eating crab.
This book is well written, engaging, and fun. As I was reading, I worried whether Kammie would be rescued, and how she would deal with the mean girls in the future. The girl in the well could have been me! This book is definitely worth reading!
Thanks to Karen Rivers, Algonquin Young Readers, and NetGalley for the advance copy! Stay grapey!
