The Fort

By: Gordon Korman

Narrated by: Christopher Carley, Michael Crouch, Nick Walther, Ramon De Ocampo, Tom Picasso, Mark Sanderlin

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers"—five friends who need to stick together after they set up a hideout in an abandoned bomb shelter and discover that the only way to be true friends is to reveal their secrets and help each other out.

The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction—power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends—Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ—meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray—Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn’t have any friends yet.

Ricky is the one to find the strange trap door that’s appeared in the middle of the woods—the door to an old bomb shelter, unearthed by the hurricane. Inside, the boys find a completely intact underground lair, complete with electricity, food, and entertainment (in the form of videocassettes). The boys vow to keep the place’s existence to themselves.

Things soon get tense. Some bad locals keep snooping around. And what started out as a fun place to escape soon becomes a serious refuge for one of the kids who is trying to avoid an abusive home situation. In order to save the shelter, the friends must keep its secret... and in order to save themselves, they’re going to have to share their individual secrets, and build the safest place they can.

©2022 Gordon Korman (P)2022 Recorded Books

I was not expecting it to be so deep.

the characters were well developed and I couldn't help but care for each of them

The kindness

I like The friendship I do not like the ending of the book It was

My 2nd favorite book

I love this book, if you have not read/listened to this book yet, i just wanted to clarify the main charter is CJ and not Evan, anyway i love this book sooooo much!!! there is mystery and a small touch of violence, and it does have a kid with OCD in it, just a heads up because it might make you feel bad if it has misinformation, back to the book i love how long the book is, and low cost for what it is. i reccamend this book to 8+ just because of the violence. if your wondering what my favorite book is it is Resart another great book from my favorite author Gordan Korman!!!! :) read/listen now!!! you won't regret it.

The best book

I loved it and I will be taking a at test on it they should make a Second one

Great book,

It’s a great book, and I love the secrecy and the characters. I love this book.

When the bully jaiger stabbed Marcus and everybody just started going against jaiger it was the most exciting part!🤩🤩

I liked EVERYTHING🫥🫥 it was awesome. (These words in the parenthesis are pointless it’s just to fill in the fifteen word minimum policy.)

Amazing

I was a bit skeptical about this book at first but I ended up loving it. The characters and twists are amazing. Despite this, I still have to say that Cj’s mom is really annoying until she agrees to leave. Like you’re literally forcing your son to live in a toxic environment.

Excellent Middle Grade Story

I bought this for a road trip with my 13 year old grandson, and I honestly don’t know which of us enjoyed it more.

Each of the characters was dealing with their own real life issues, but that wasn’t the focus of the story. The book was actually about friendship and different types of “family,” and the joy of discovering a secret bomb shelter in the woods and being able to make it into a much needed fort.

The book was good, the audio version was good, and I highly recommend it to … well, just about anyone who is 11-15, or who has EVER been 11-15.

5 STAR

This book was incredible I loved it so much. I definitely recommend this one

Another great Gordon Korman book

My son and I listen to these books together in the car and always love Gordon Korman stories. The Fort was a great story but what was especially impactful was the real world complications in families. The dynamics between the kids in the story in relation to what they have going on at home really made this story. Plus it brings awareness to these situations to kid listeners that may not be aware of complex issues in families.