The Reluctant Commander, by Richard Patton A week at Camp Wakonda

A week at Camp Wakonda is exactly what Darla Decker needs

Her friends

They are newly conjured with full and deadly powers

Through syllabic and prose poems

hyper-organized girl who's president of the Young Attachés Club and an emotional overeater who can't go out in public without his lucha libre mask — while still retaining her autonomy

The Reluctant Commander, by Richard Patton A week at Camp WakondaTwenty two year old George Washington was pleased by his promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel and quite content to be the second in command of Governor Robert Dinwiddie's expedition to remove the French from the Ohio Valley. Then Joshua Fry, the mission's elderly commanding officer, is killed in a fall from his horse. Washington, whose experience in battle is all but nonexistent, is suddenly in command of the Virginia Regiment at a remote field