Title: A Very Long Summer [and sequels]
Fandom: Books by Gordon Korman: I Want to Go Home!
Pairing: Rudy Miller/Mike Webster, many OC/OC
Categories: Humor, ranges from gen to pre-slash to slash, romance (up to about R-rating), kid-fic in sequel ficlets
Length: Epic  [the first story is ~37,000 words. The official sequel is 11,500 words, and the ficlet series totals ~25,000 words... for a grand total of almost 75,000 words!]
Warnings: Implied child abuse/trauma of an OC in sequel ficlets, implied sudden deaths of parents of OCs

Author on LJ: calathea 
Website: Calathea's Bruno and Boots Fic

Review: One of Gordon Korman's one-shot books, I Want to Go Home! was a story about boys at camp - which would have been a big yawn, if the main characters weren't so profoundly unhappy to be there. Hilarity Ensues.

Calathea picks up the story a few years later. Now Mike and Rudy are older, and forced to be counselors at the camp. Attention is paid to the little details of the canon, and Calathea gives fans what they wanted all along by hooking Mike & Rudy up (not that it happens all that fast - Mike doesn't know Rudy likes him, etc.). Even better, little details from the first fic carry over to the sequel (an OC romance that only peripherally connects to the prequel & following ficlets, and then only if you look hard) and then the ficlets, where Rudy and Mike adopt a family of boys. As Calathea writes them, the OCs are all great, and fit in with the regulars. Best of all, Calathea successfully mimicked GK's writing style.

A Very Long Summer