Escape From Kids' Club: Pocket Money Puffin

by Phillip Gwynne

Max, Lily, Boaz and Jesse are stuck in Kids' Club at an island resort, forced to watch endless Pirates of the Caribbean re-runs while their parents relax by the pool. After eight days they decide to break out and let the real fun begin …

93 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 22, 2010

About the author

Phillip Gwynne's first novel Deadly Unna? the literary hit of 1998, has now sold over 180,000 copies. It was made into the feature film Australian Rules for which Phillip won an AFI award. The sequel, Nukkin Ya, was published to great acclaim in 2000. He has also written The Worst Team Ever, Born to Bake, and A Chook Called Harry in the Aussie Bites series, and Jetty Rats. Phillip's latest novel, the adult detective thriller The Build Up, is being made into a 13-part TV series on SBS, and his YA novel, Swerve, will be published in 2010.

He now lives in Leura, New South Wales, with his wife and three children: aged 17, 2 and 1

Reviews

[Zeb · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hum. I like the idea of children being bored half to death and annoyed to be dumped in something that's meant to be super fun but isn't ( the Kid's Club on a holiday resort while their parents hang out at the pool and the bar) , and the initial idea of the plot is good ... but I think the author packs too much unlikely adventure into one slim book. Less would have been more. And some of the backdrop does not make sense. Where on a Pacific Island do you have dangerous whitewater rivers? The Island's are hardly large enough for such water, all the more if the kids have already crossed this particular Island on foot and raft. Then the natives seem to do a dance like the Maori Haka, but are not Maori ... naaa. Sorry. Two and a half stars.