“The basement was dim.  The couch was soft and comfortable, perfectly molded to the contours of my butt by the thousands of hours I’d spent on it.  And the aliens coming out of the smoldering wreckage of the mothership were dazed and slow, ripe for the blasting.” Cameron Boxer pg. 1 Slacker by Gordon Korman
 
Cameron has spent his first thirteen years creating the perfect gaming lifestyle for himself, and it’s going really well, until the entire Sycamore Fire Department shows up in his front yard.  Now Cameron’s parents are on him to get out of the house and do something, anything, “… so long as it involves real human beings and it doesn’t happen on a screen.” pg. 9.  But with Rule the World, the East Coast gaming championship, coming up soon, Cameron doesn’t have time for sports or drama club or other extra-curricular activities and he’s not very interested in them either.  So Cameron comes up with a plan, a plan to do something big, while doing nothing at all.  Unfortunately for Cameron, when several classmates, including a budding activist, the star football player and the biggest juvenile delinquent in school get involved, things start to get a little out of hand. Cameron’s fake after school club, the Positive Action Group, quickly grows from an idea that was never supposed to have any members, to a membership that includes almost the entire school.  Then Cameron goes and accidently saves an old lady’s life, when really he just wanted to sneak away and play video games, and that’s when things really start to get out of hand … or do they?  Can something good come from a slacker like Cameron Boxer?
 
Read Slacker by Gordon Korman and find out, among other things, why there is a beaver playing video games on the front cover of the book!