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Get Me Out of Here!
Danny's mates are brilliant: there's his best mate Giraffles, so-called because of his unusually long neck; the MandM twins, who are always finishing each other's sentences; and Lucky Success (and I reckon you can guess how he got his name). They're the best mates a kid could ask for, and when an epic school trip is announced, they're all properly made up about it.
Because school trips are just an excuse to have a laugh with your mates, right?
Erm, WRONG.
Let's just say that this is a trip like no other, and Danny, Giraffles, Lucky and the MandMs have got a real challenge on their hands.
Will they make it through?
If Danny has anything to do with it, you bet they will!
Because school trips are just an excuse to have a laugh with your mates, right?
Erm, WRONG.
Let's just say that this is a trip like no other, and Danny, Giraffles, Lucky and the MandMs have got a real challenge on their hands.
Will they make it through?
If Danny has anything to do with it, you bet they will!
261 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2019
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Andy McNab
205 books1,169 followersAndy McNab joined the infantry in 1976 as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was badged as a member of 22 SAS Regiment. He served in B Squadron 22 SAS for ten years and worked on both covert and overt special operations worldwide, including anti-terrorist and anti-drug operations in the Middle and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland.
Trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons and tactics, covert surveillance and information gathering in hostile environments, and VIP protection, McNab worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14th Intelligence Group, going on to become an instructor.
McNab also worked as an instructor on the SAS selection and training team and instructed foreign special forces in counter terrorism, hostage rescue and survival training.
Andy McNab has written about his experiences in the SAS in two bestselling books, Bravo Two Zero (1993) and Immediate Action (1995). Bravo Two Zero is the highest selling war book of all time and has sold over 1.7 million copies in the UK. To date it has been published in 17 countries and translated into 16 languages. The CD spoken word version of Bravo Two Zero, narrated by McNab, sold over 60,000 copies and earned a silver disc. The BBC's film of Bravo Two Zero, starring Sean Bean, was shown on primetime BBC 1 television in 1999 and released on DVD in 2000.
Immediate Action, McNab's autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of the bestseller lists following the lifting on an ex-parte injunction granted to the Ministry of Defence in September 1995. To date, Immediate Action has now sold over 1.4 million copies in the UK.
McNab is the author of seven fast action thrillers, highly acclaimed for their authenticity and all Sunday Times bestsellers. Published in 1997, Remote Control was hailed as the most authentic thriller ever written and has sold over half a million copies in the UK. McNab's subsequent thrillers, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light , Liberation Day , Dark Winter , Deep Black and Aggressor have all gone on to sell equally well. The central character in all the books is Nick Stone, a tough ex-SAS operative working as a 'K' on deniable operations for British Intelligence.
McNab's fiction draws extensively on his experiences and knowledge of Special Forces soldiering. He has been officially registered by Neilsen Bookscan as the bestselling British thriller writer of the last year.
Trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons and tactics, covert surveillance and information gathering in hostile environments, and VIP protection, McNab worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14th Intelligence Group, going on to become an instructor.
McNab also worked as an instructor on the SAS selection and training team and instructed foreign special forces in counter terrorism, hostage rescue and survival training.
Andy McNab has written about his experiences in the SAS in two bestselling books, Bravo Two Zero (1993) and Immediate Action (1995). Bravo Two Zero is the highest selling war book of all time and has sold over 1.7 million copies in the UK. To date it has been published in 17 countries and translated into 16 languages. The CD spoken word version of Bravo Two Zero, narrated by McNab, sold over 60,000 copies and earned a silver disc. The BBC's film of Bravo Two Zero, starring Sean Bean, was shown on primetime BBC 1 television in 1999 and released on DVD in 2000.
Immediate Action, McNab's autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of the bestseller lists following the lifting on an ex-parte injunction granted to the Ministry of Defence in September 1995. To date, Immediate Action has now sold over 1.4 million copies in the UK.
McNab is the author of seven fast action thrillers, highly acclaimed for their authenticity and all Sunday Times bestsellers. Published in 1997, Remote Control was hailed as the most authentic thriller ever written and has sold over half a million copies in the UK. McNab's subsequent thrillers, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light , Liberation Day , Dark Winter , Deep Black and Aggressor have all gone on to sell equally well. The central character in all the books is Nick Stone, a tough ex-SAS operative working as a 'K' on deniable operations for British Intelligence.
McNab's fiction draws extensively on his experiences and knowledge of Special Forces soldiering. He has been officially registered by Neilsen Bookscan as the bestselling British thriller writer of the last year.
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January 21, 2020
Danny is all excited for a Wild Extreme Park outing... but is he going to like it when his brother is coming with the trip? A fun and hilarious book about friendship, camping, and more.
I spotted this book at the library, one of the rare English books, and I knew I had to bring it with me, it sounded right up my alley. Plus, the illustrations were just so fabulous.
It is the chance of the lifetime for Danny when his class gets a chance to go to a fun outing, something with all sorts of wild extreme things. Danny is eager because he has been trying (and not doing too well sadly) to do parkour and climbing walls and the like. I did feel sorry for him that his mother was having so much trouble with getting enough money for her kids and food and the like. But she is able to pay a bit... if, and I loved this idea because more parents should do this, Danny could get some of the money himself. Well. I am not too sure if mom will be too happy with Danny's plans for money, I was in stitches. But I did think it was awesome that he tried and that he was pretty creative with them (OK, it made things worse, but hey, he tried).
I did think it was superhilarious that these kids didn't know where there stuff came from. HOW? How did they confuse a cow with a rhino? They must have read picture books or seen shows or seen the occasional commercial pop up with cows and all that.
How did they not know where milk, meat and eggs came from?
I get these are city kids. But I am one myself and dang it I knew clearly where my stuff came from (I still remember the shock when I was little and learned where eggs came from, ewww still disgusts me to today), and I knew what the animals are. Is this is a generation gap? I am already that old? :P
It was quite funny, especially seeing one of their classmates just continually make some really dumb remarks that had everyone, including me, in stitches. How did he get to these conclusions?
Thankfully Danny does know a lot and I was just delighted that he was often the one with the most sense.
I loved seeing the kids find out all about nature and that they had to make their own houses (tents in this case which had me in stitches as Danny and his team made everything... but a tent), get their own breakfast, and then of course there were all the fun extreme sports. I loved those as well and, despite having a fear of heights, would love to try them out.
I also loved the ending, oh boy that one was so exciting I totally lost myself further in the book. I just had to know if everything would end up well (I was guessing yes due to the nature of the book, but you never know). While I wasn't approving of what happened on the bus, I have to confess that yes I giggled.
As I said at the start I loved the illustrations. They were fabulous and so much fun. They really brought the book further to life. Making the events either more hilarious or more sad (nettles don't make anyone very happy, especially not when applied to bums).
Oh, and I am loving it when the title pops back in the book. This time it happened quite a few times. :P
I hope that if I am as old as Gerri that I am as kick-ass as she is. Dang that lady. Sure, her attitude needs working. You are here with kids, not soldiers. But other than that that she can do all this at her age is amazing. Gosh!
I am sadly rating this fun book less due to two things:
1) Dylan. I understand that brothers and sisters will bicker. I understand that at times they will do things that aren't nice. But what Dylan does is just psychopathic and wrong. Given nettles to someone on the toilet when they ask for leaves? Harmful. But it only escalates as the story continues and I wonder why no one did anything. The only thing the teachers/leader did, was the same that happened to me when I was bullied, telling Danny to avoid the guy. WHAT THE Hell? That never works. As it is NOT ME nor Danny in this case who are looking for the bullies. The bullies come to us at the most rotten moments, at the moments when you cannot run, at moments when you are alone and cornered. I hate it when teachers say this and I also hate that they gave Danny so much blame while he wasn't the one doing anything wrong. :|
2) The Giraffe jokes. There is a guy in Danny's class, coincidentally one of his friends (no clue why because if my friend kept calling me Giraffles and made jokes like this I would stay away from them). I just found it very hurtful.
Despite those 2 meh points, I had tons of fun reading this book. I would recommend it.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
I spotted this book at the library, one of the rare English books, and I knew I had to bring it with me, it sounded right up my alley. Plus, the illustrations were just so fabulous.
It is the chance of the lifetime for Danny when his class gets a chance to go to a fun outing, something with all sorts of wild extreme things. Danny is eager because he has been trying (and not doing too well sadly) to do parkour and climbing walls and the like. I did feel sorry for him that his mother was having so much trouble with getting enough money for her kids and food and the like. But she is able to pay a bit... if, and I loved this idea because more parents should do this, Danny could get some of the money himself. Well. I am not too sure if mom will be too happy with Danny's plans for money, I was in stitches. But I did think it was awesome that he tried and that he was pretty creative with them (OK, it made things worse, but hey, he tried).
I did think it was superhilarious that these kids didn't know where there stuff came from. HOW? How did they confuse a cow with a rhino? They must have read picture books or seen shows or seen the occasional commercial pop up with cows and all that.
How did they not know where milk, meat and eggs came from?
I get these are city kids. But I am one myself and dang it I knew clearly where my stuff came from (I still remember the shock when I was little and learned where eggs came from, ewww still disgusts me to today), and I knew what the animals are. Is this is a generation gap? I am already that old? :P
It was quite funny, especially seeing one of their classmates just continually make some really dumb remarks that had everyone, including me, in stitches. How did he get to these conclusions?
Thankfully Danny does know a lot and I was just delighted that he was often the one with the most sense.
I loved seeing the kids find out all about nature and that they had to make their own houses (tents in this case which had me in stitches as Danny and his team made everything... but a tent), get their own breakfast, and then of course there were all the fun extreme sports. I loved those as well and, despite having a fear of heights, would love to try them out.
I also loved the ending, oh boy that one was so exciting I totally lost myself further in the book. I just had to know if everything would end up well (I was guessing yes due to the nature of the book, but you never know). While I wasn't approving of what happened on the bus, I have to confess that yes I giggled.
As I said at the start I loved the illustrations. They were fabulous and so much fun. They really brought the book further to life. Making the events either more hilarious or more sad (nettles don't make anyone very happy, especially not when applied to bums).
Oh, and I am loving it when the title pops back in the book. This time it happened quite a few times. :P
I hope that if I am as old as Gerri that I am as kick-ass as she is. Dang that lady. Sure, her attitude needs working. You are here with kids, not soldiers. But other than that that she can do all this at her age is amazing. Gosh!
I am sadly rating this fun book less due to two things:
1) Dylan. I understand that brothers and sisters will bicker. I understand that at times they will do things that aren't nice. But what Dylan does is just psychopathic and wrong. Given nettles to someone on the toilet when they ask for leaves? Harmful. But it only escalates as the story continues and I wonder why no one did anything. The only thing the teachers/leader did, was the same that happened to me when I was bullied, telling Danny to avoid the guy. WHAT THE Hell? That never works. As it is NOT ME nor Danny in this case who are looking for the bullies. The bullies come to us at the most rotten moments, at the moments when you cannot run, at moments when you are alone and cornered. I hate it when teachers say this and I also hate that they gave Danny so much blame while he wasn't the one doing anything wrong. :|
2) The Giraffe jokes. There is a guy in Danny's class, coincidentally one of his friends (no clue why because if my friend kept calling me Giraffles and made jokes like this I would stay away from them). I just found it very hurtful.
Despite those 2 meh points, I had tons of fun reading this book. I would recommend it.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
April 17, 2021
Team McNab and Earle have created a truly laugh out loud funny book for middle grade readers! Danny lives in the city with skyscrapers, buses, subways, and an over-worked single mom and the worst big brother ever. He lives for excitement and is determined to be the best 5th grade street runner possible and the “Wild Life” camp, advertising rock climbing, ziplining, and kayaking, sounds like just the opportunity he needs to not only hone his parkour skills but to also escape the pranks and harassment dished out by his brother Dylan. Unfortunately, nothing works out as planned. The camp is bare bones—tents, outhouse without toilet paper, no cell service, milk your own cows for the milk on your cereal kind of bare bones. Worst of all? His brother ends up being one of the adult chaperones on the trip! The laughs abound for Danny, his best friend Giraffles, twins M and M, and maybe, just maybe, the last laugh will be on Dylan. Students who live in the city will laugh because they can totally relate to how difficult it would be to land in such a primitive setting, rural kids will roll as they imagine their citified counterparts making the most ignorant comments, and all will appreciate the way Danny struggles to deal with his goals and his obnoxious brother. This is a must-have book for those kids who are always looking for funny books, but maybe don’t want to read one that is as long as Patterson/Grabenstein offerings. McNab keeps the text free of any profanity or sexual content and any violence is that which can be dished out by nature or a pain in the neck, but not actually abusive, brother. Thanks for the ARC, Amazon Vine and Scholastic Press.
May 7, 2021
Maybe a 3 just because the quality of writing for a young readers book was decent. I found it hard to enjoy because the older brother is just soooo mean, and it never really stops (he doesn’t really seem to change after learning a valuable lesson). The main character also has a best friend who he seems to love, yet still makes unnecessary jabs at his appearance (it just got old). Just overall I didn’t like it much... not sure how I am going to tell my 8-year old daughter who seemed to find it funny enough to tell me I should read it. Clearly I am too old and grouchy I guess, and I am totally not the target audience.
July 22, 2019
Danny is going on a school trip and can't wait for the adventure to start however he has to raise the money himself which causes a lot of issues whilst his sas obsessed brother Dylan also ends up coming along for the ride, not fun!
As Danny and his friends go through toilet escapades and doing daring adventurous activities things go wrong and their guide is an elderly woman to rub it in more!
This book was hilarious and didn't skimp on the laughs at all. Get prepared for your sides to split and if you're a fan of Mark Lowery's Roman Garstang books this is a must read for you!
As Danny and his friends go through toilet escapades and doing daring adventurous activities things go wrong and their guide is an elderly woman to rub it in more!
This book was hilarious and didn't skimp on the laughs at all. Get prepared for your sides to split and if you're a fan of Mark Lowery's Roman Garstang books this is a must read for you!
November 8, 2019
This is a hilarious book about going on a school excursion to the Go Wild outdoor adventure area. Danny and his friends are super excited about their trip, but they have a few surprises ahead of them. Surprises include, a non-existent phone signal, an instructor who is “132 years old”, a toilet that is actually a bucket inside a tent. Misadventures and adventures about, including an unfortunate incident with stinging nettles. Illustrations by Robin Boyden add to the humour of the text. Readers will also enjoy the addition of a section of Questions with the authors.
Suitable for 9+
Suitable for 9+
February 10, 2020
Read with my year 5 class and we absolutely loved it, we laughed the whole way through and many could relate to their own experience!
May 10, 2021
Not really my humor, but I can see the boys in my class laughing while reading this story!
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September 26, 2020Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
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