The book I read for the Truman Book Report is “What Waits in the Woods” by Kate Brian. It’s about a girl named Callie who moved from the city to a countryside place. She decides to go camping with her new friend, Penelope and Lissa. Also her boyfriend, Jeremy. While they are hiking they start to hear a strange laughter in the woods. The lose half of their food supplies. Then they stumble upon a cold dead body in the middle of the woods.
The three main characters in the book are Callie, Penelope, and Lissa. Callie affects the plot by finding the dead body and being the city girl who doesn’t really know anything about camping. Penelope affects the plot by being the murderer that kills Lissa and Ted. She also the one who loses half of their food supplies by falling into the river. Lissa affects the plot by getting them lost and being a “camping expert”. She is also the first dead body that Callie finds. …show more content…
They don’t have anything to eat, so they sometimes fight over what food they should eat. Another main conflict in the story is a murderer trying to kill all of them because even though the laughing is something completely different they are still scared.
The climax of the story is when Callie finds out that Penelope is the killer that killed Ted, Lissa, and almost Zach. This is when they finally get to Ted’s cabin and Callie goes take a shower with Penelope, while the boys call the police. Then Callie loses Penelope. She hears a gunshot and sees Zach and Ted dead. At first she thinks it’s Jeremey because he’s the only one alive, but then she sees Penelope with the gun and Jeremey knock out by her. Penelope explains why she’s going to kill everyone expect Jeremey because he’s the love of her life. Then Callie runs upstairs to call the