Description: Good old Camp Harmony. Horseback riding, archery, and water-skiing on the crystal-clear Dray River. But the summertime fun screeches to a halt when campers are attacked by an apparently rabid porcupine, followed by a pack of wolves, the camp horses, and, soon, every mammal in the vicinity. As the horde of animals ravages the camp, infecting bite victims with a disease that kills them almost instantly, Heath and a small group of resourceful campers take to the safety of the river to escape the deadly critters, and each character's strengths and weaknesses are revealed as the group struggles to survive. Though Lettrick's debut suffers from a few clumsy language errors and some contrived B-movie stereotypes-clich characters (including an African American boy who dies early on in the attack); convenient plot twists; a relentless, three-digit body count; and a tidy, sunny, everything's-right-in-the-world epilogue-readers who have chewed through Goosebumps or similar titles will appreciate the gruesome terror of this Night of the Living Dead meets The Island of Dr. Moreau story in a classic summer-camp setting. - Paula Willey-- Booklist

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