Hideout

Name: Hideout
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Watt Key
ISBN: 9781541434271

Author: Watt Key

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/03/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Mystery & Detective, Action & Adventure Stories

Synopsis

In this riveting middle-grade adventure, the son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living on his own in the wilderness. Twelve-year-old Sam has been given a fishing boat by his father, but he hates fishing. Instead he uses the boat to disappear for hours at a time, exploring the forbidden swampy surroundings of his bayou home. Then he discovers a strange kid named Davey, mysteriously alone, repairing an abandoned cabin deep in the woods. Not fooled by the boy's evasive explanation as to why he's on his own, Sam becomes entangled in his own efforts to help Davey. But this leads him to telling small lies that only get bigger as the danger increases for both boys and hidden truths become harder to conceal.

About Watt Key

Watt Key lives in southern Alabama with his family. His debut novel, Alabama Moon, was named to Time magazine's list of the Best One Hundred YA Books of All Time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on October 17, 2017

The story: Sam hates remembering getting beat up in front of the whole school, so he's taken to cruising the bayou by himself in his fishing boat. When he meets Davey, a kid his age who's hiding out in the swamp all alone, Sam worries about him, even though it's obvious Davey isn't telling the truth......more

Goodreads review by ♡Kayla♡ on January 16, 2023

This was such a cute story about friendship and secrets. <3......more

Goodreads review by McCaid on September 09, 2018

Watt key has done it again! This was a great suspenseful and emotional read. Hideout is a mystery with several twists (one I saw coming a mile away but felt it was definitely needed) and was also a drama. I loved the characters and the problems they each had. Watt Key always does a good job developi......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 14, 2018

A 2019-2020 Missouri Truman Readers Award preliminary nominee (grades 6-8). After a bad bullying incident at school, Sam is feeling off-balance. When his dad gives him a fishing boat, Sam uses it to explore the nearby waterways. He befriends a mysterious boy and gets in over his head, although his he......more

Goodreads review by Helen on September 21, 2020

Watt Key has become my new "favorite author, "especially for struggling, reluctant readers. This isn't a Sunshine State Reader, but Watt Key has had two books on that list, and therefore I began to read more books by him. In Hideout Sam takes his new fishing boat out, but not for fishing. Something......more