This book is a great new addition to Kayla Miller's Click Universe. It brings back fan favorites Olive and Willow, and introduces Nat, a girl in their class. The novel shifts the setting back to Camp Acorn Lake where Willow and Olive had their troubles the year before. This year things are going fine for the two friends, but there are new challenges her friends Max and Bree are now on the out and out. Olive does her best to enjoy camp, but the two of them constantly fighting and wanting her to choose a side is becoming too much.

Not only does she have to deal with that, but Nat has nothing but a bad attitude when it comes to everything about being at Camp Acorn Lake. She hates the bugs, the lack of air conditioners, the being in nature. Will Olive be able to salvage her summer with so many negative aspects going on. The book is a perfect one for any young person who wants to read about friendships, or who might have trouble when it comes to meddling in others friendships.

The art was as usual for the author beautiful and detailed and they story fit well within the Click universe giving us returns of old favorites, plus newer characters to learn more about and an engaging plot which kept the reader engaged. I'd give this five stars, its is the perfect middle grade graphic novel for fans and newcomers to the series alike.

Summer camp, nature, drama, friendship...pretty typical topics for the age group. The big focus seemed to be on a more nature based protection aspect vs friendships and their ups and downs. If you find a kid that loves nature, this book is for them.

Note: I received a DRC from NetGalley in exchange for a review.
“Kayla Miller, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of the Click graphic novel series and coauthor of the Besties series, returns with a new Olive story! Olive's hopes for a relaxing two weeks at Camp Acorn Lake are challenged when two of her friends stop speaking to each other.

A storm is brewing—- in the skies and in Olive’s friend group.

Olive is excited to reunite with Max and Bree at Camp Acorn Lake, but the buses have barely pulled away when her two closest camp friends start fighting…and it’s not just a little squabble. They refuse to speak to each other and, even worse, try to make Olive choose sides. Any attempt to smooth things over seems to aggravate them more, leaving Olive stuck in the middle. With Willow enjoying her busy activity and social schedule, Olive has no choice but to spend most of her time with unhappy first-time camper Nat. It’s far from the fun-filled, sun-filled summer she had planned.

Luckily, Olive is able to distract herself with a new challenge: pitching a winning plan for improving the camp! Willow, Nat, and even the feuding Max and Bree want to help Olive make the camp a better place, but with all the drama, they’re lacking the teamwork to make the dream work. Can Olive find a way to free herself and her friends from everything that’s holding them back, or are they doomed to stay stuck in their disagreements?

New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Kayla Miller returns with another vibrant and emotional story about the joys and challenges of navigating friend groups and the importance of remembering that the only feelings you can control are your own.”

Kayla Miller’s “Click” series is very charming, and I enjoyed this book a lot, just like her others. The illustrations are cute and charming, and the story is simple, yet fun. I also thought that it was very fun to revisit Camp Acorn Lake again. I really enjoyed this book, and I would recommend it to kids from ages 8-12.
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Olive is excited to head off to Camp Acorn Lake, with friends Bree, Willow, and Max. She's not thrilled that the very negative Nat is in her cabin. When Bree and Max have a fight, Olive gets dragged into the middle of it. When a donor proposes a contest for how her money could be used in the camp, the campers all come up with ideas, and have to present them as skits. These include creature comforts like air conditioning, but Olive thinks the camp would benefit from a garden. She is also building bat houses, and when she tries to hang one up, the weather goes bad. Nat finds her, and the two have a heart to heart about why Olive is so invested in Bree and Max's fight, and about why Nat is so negative. This was a fine addition to a very popular series, and my students will be eager to read it.

Another great graphic novel for the Click series! Olive and her friends are back at camp with Nat joining them but so grumpy about it. Olive tries to be helpful but when her friends Max and Bree start fighting, it threatens to ruin her summer too.

The camp director announces a former camper wants to donate to a project and while other campers think about comfort items, Olive thinks about creating a garden and begins doing small things to help creatures and campers as she gets ready to present her idea.

The graphics are just what you expect from this series and the book moves quickly. Another one I won’t be able to keep on the shelves!

Although this is the eighth book in the Click series of stories about Olive and her friends, you don’t need to have read the other books to get into this story about summer camp, and what happens when friends fight, and then don’t want to make up.


And Olive is stuck in the middle. Thus the name of this story.


And no matter what Olive does, she can’t get her friends to stop fighting. The other problem is that one of her friends from school, Nat, has been sent to summer camp against her will. She doesn’t want to be there, and hates not being home, so have a bad attitude to begin with.


Like with all middle grade stories, friendships are a big part of the story, and in this case, Olive has to juggle all her friends to try to have a good time.


Cute story of friends finding that they really do want to have a good time, if they can just get over their hurt.


What I like about the Olive books, is that she is a bit of chameleon, and makes friends with the drama kids, as well as the science and art kids. In one of the earlier books, they ask her to pick, and she can’t.


For those who have been following the series, it is a good addition. For those who have never read these books, this would be a good one to pick up, because you don’t have to know who the people are to get the gist of the story.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out the 6th of May 2025.

Olive is back at camp and excited to spend time with all of her friends. The only problem is that two of them are fighting and it's ruining Olive's summer. Gentle reminders from others get Olive to realize she doesn't need to solve everyone's problems and she doesn't need to let others' moods ruin her time.
A wonderful message about preserving nature!

This is a great installment to this series. I like seeing them at camp. I loved the ideas they came up with to make camp better.
I liked the friendships and the willingness to try new things.

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC.

I love Kayla Miller's graphic novels. Her newest one, Stuck, is no exception. This is a fun middle grade graphic novel about friendship. I always enjoy jumping back into the world of Olive and her friends.