Away Games

Andre, Miles, Pat, Mack, and the girls are back in the third installment of the “Camp Average” series by Craig Battle. In Double Foul, Andre agreed to attend Camp Killington if Deets helped the Camp Avalon team get to a basketball tournament. Well, since Andre is as honest as he is loyal, he now finds himself “a few miles from the place where he should have been spending his summer, trying to ignore the sinking feeling in his stomach.” Luckily, Mack won’t let Andre suffer his fate alone and has also tried out for the elite baseball camp. Hopefully, the best friends will be able to make the best of their summer of competitive baseball training.

Back at Camp Avalon, or Camp Average to its campers, Miles is trying to find a way to get the boys back where they belong – which is definitely NOT playing baseball at Camp Killington. Unfortunately, even if Mack and Andre return to Camp Average, they won’t have room in their bunkhouse because some Camp Hortonia members are staying at Camp Average and sleeping in Mack’s and Andre’s bunks. To make matters worse, Pat has an unfortunate history with Garth who is intent on some poison ivy revenge.

Author Battle has an amazing cast of characters whose interactions are believable in an uplifting, humorous tale. By splitting his cast between the two camps, he is able to introduce new tensions and challenges for the friends to overcome. The reader is immersed in a supportive friend group. He has also fashioned a very strong piece of sport fiction jumping seamlessly from the action on the ball-hockey court to baseball drills to croquet.

There are several interlapping and connected storylines in Away Games which will make complete sense to the fans of the series. Encourage anyone new to the series to begin at the beginning, Camp Average.