num_pages: 336
description: Summertime and the livin' ain't easySchool's finally out, and eleven-year-old Mitch Valentine is ready to get started on his extensive list of things to do with his best friend - until his mom ruins everything with a surprise announcement. The family is going to take a long trip halfway across the country, to stay with her family down South. Mitch's reluctant summer visit to sweltering farm country tests him in all sorts of ways, starting with his sense of humor. Pitkin, Louisiana, turns out to be a place filled with challenges and dangers, from rope burns to raging bulls.In this vivid and funny first novel, Mitch discovers that it's his own bad decisions that can make for the biggest challenges and dangers of all.
language: English
title: The Cottonmouth Club
titlecomplete: The Cottonmouth Club
genres: Humor, Juvenile
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)