Camp 30 (Camp X, #2) (2024)

I loved this book it is a great follow up to camp x. The boys start in a brand new neighbourhood and a brand new life except the camps, they move to this town and start delivering mail to the camp 30 prisoner of war camp with there mom working there two. They meet some people from the past and make some new contacts along the way. I love this book it was perfect for my age (13 year) and I would recommend this to a boy that likes fiction but also someone who is in to the world wars it truly fastening how the arbour right it but your always expecting something big to happen and it does it always keeps you entertained and wanting to read more I enjoyed this book I hope you can to.

I read this book with my dyslexic son who is 12 years old but reads at a lower level of a 10 year old. He really enjoyed it and even wanted to read the book as it was very exciting and suspenseful. We need more books like this that are written to appeal to young boys. The story was historical fiction so we also learned about what was going on in Canada during WW2 and the war of espionage. Great read highly recommended.

There are hardly many words to explain how much I love Eric Walters' work. This is the third or fourth book I've read, and I've found nothing, so far, to disappoint me. I like that he writes about subjects that are not plainly defined as right or wrong, where things are not just black and white, or people good and bad. He writes about those grey areas, those areas that actually show how this world full of humans is. Subjects in those areas are also heartbreaking precisely because right and wrong are not so easily defined.

In this story, you can feel George's conflict about the WWII German prisoners because he gets to know them, he realizes that they have families and miss them, the same way he misses his father, that they are brave, honourable, and good people, just caught up in an evil war that makes humans turn against each other. The Germans are portrayed as human beings, as normal people like you and I, and it makes you rethink about your feelings towards them.

You get caught in between wanting the prisoners to escape (if they were Canadian soldiers in a German camp, you'd want them to) and not wanting them to make things worse for the Allies by going back to Germany. And you just can't decide. That's how real life is. And eventually, you learn that you have to make a choice, a choice that can have drastic consequences even if it is the one that seems right, and you just have to learn to live with that.
I found this to be the case in Elixir and in Run. And it made me all weepy too, because I could just imagine that conflicting feeling, that feeling of despair, and the wishing that the world was not such a complicated place.

One particular aspect that I liked in this book was the Ajax-Whitby-Oshawa-Bowmanville setting. I lived in this area for a few years, and I saw surprised that there were camps in the 40s in Bowmanville and Whitby. I wasn't surprised about the munitions plant in Ajax, because that is believable. The camp in Whitby could have been since it is a bigger area, but a camp in Bowmanville seems so interesting and unreal. Now I feel like I need to visit Bowmanville, do some in-depth research about its history, maybe talk to some veterans, and find out if these details were real.

Overall, I enjoyed the book. I am, however, always constantly irritated when characters make silly decisions in order for suspenseful moments to happen. At the end, I was a bit 'really?' The whole - 'and then the secret agents came out of the dark and saved the day' schtick is a bit too much akin to the 'and then I woke up and it was all a dream cliche'.. That said, I really did enjoy this book and think I would have much more so if I were in the target-audience age range. I will look up the next one in the series.

Another fun entry in the Camp X series.

It’s not quite a good as the first book but it’s still enjoyable. The history of Camp 30, a prisoner of war camp, is interesting and I presume accurate. The book is a bit of a slow starter but I like the protagonists, back from the first book, so it wasn’t an issue. The jump tot he action is almost to sudden but the ending is as thrilling as the last.

I loved how this book highlighted what it was like for the German soldiers, fighting for their country, not Hitler, with families they loved and missed, and a duty to serve their nation. Eric Walters created such a heartfelt storyline, amazing characters, and drove home the point that everyone is a person no matter where they're from.

I liked Camp X better than Camp 30, although I liked how the boys moved to Bowmanville and we got to learn more about the German prisoners. I thought this book was going to end on and cliffhanger and I’m glad it didn’t. Nothing too violent for the age range.

it was a very good read although it was not as good as the first book. I liked the amount of action there was in the book. Was kind of questioning and mysterious at the beginning and then it got better.

I am reading through this series with my 8 and 10 year old sons. We all loved this one (book 2) just as much as Camp X (book 1). We’ll be starting Fool’s Gold soon!

This book had mystery, adventure and a first point of view

4.5 stars. Not as good as the first one but still amazing. The author is good at finding genius ways to bring these boys into situations where they would need to utilize their spy skills. Love it.

By the time you reach this second book in the series, Jack and George are your friends, as real as the kids next door - or your own siblings. Typical familial bickering and closeness makes them real and believable, while their adventures are a little wild. But aren't adventures supposed to be?
This is another enticing read based on the Whitby-Oshawa-Bowmanville area in the 1940's and is as appealing as the first. Storytime is still a superior way of learning about history! A perfect summer reading adventure for kids...

A great sequel to Camp X, Camp 30 follows up the mentioning of the POW Camp made in Camp X and goes on to explore it very well. It was also nice to see Bill and Little Bill again. And to readers who have read the first novel, everyone knows that for Jack and George, at the end of the day, no one, not even the Nazis, is scarier than their mum!

Although this is not in my interest area or age range, I've considered taking a look at this book as I live in Bowmanville, and have been to camp 30. Is it worth a look for someone who wouldn't normally be interested in the plot?

Excellent sequel to Camp X. Engaging story. Great characters. Walters offers an interesting take on WWII through the eyes of two curious and courageous young Canadians. Great Canadian history through fictional story telling. Can't wait to read the next one in the series.

eric walters can to our school to talk about this book :)

Another hit for both of us! My son really enjoyed this one . . . the action was slower to build but the ending kept us reading chapter after chapter to find out what would happen next!

This was a great book. I especially like how the whole series, especially the first two are based and wrote with real information

The nicest, least violent of all the Camp X books by Eric Walters.

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