Request #651 from Chris

I would have read these in the mid to late 80’s but the books might be older

Book 1 is a story about an adolescent boy whose parents own a bakery, I believe called the Sunshine Bakery, because at some point in the story there is a fire and the sign melts to read “Unshine Bakery”.  The mom, a little hysterically points out how funny that is to the protagonist’s best friend who replies that he doesn’t think it is very funny at all.  The best friend also plays the piano and sings a song at some point with the lyrics that I can remember being “There’s a curse on your family and it fell on you, you’re one ugly duckling you’re my honey chile”.  The boys might play ice hockey but I could be confusing that with other books as I read a lot of books about hockey at that time.

Book 2 is a weird one and I only have a vague memory of it.  A group of teens are at a boarding school and go on a camping trip.   They get lost or stranded or something and I feel like someone is after them.  The weirdest part is that one of the students starts a relationship with one of the teachers and they go skinny dipping.  I remember this part of the the book being from the teachers POV and describing scrubbing the girls’ body and how it made him happy to know it belonged to him.  It was not a smutty book otherwise, a typical teen thriller from what I remember and I know this section weirded me out as a kid as it seemed very out of place.  I feel like there was also a part of the book where they had to get weapons to defend themself and a bow and arrow was mentioned.  

Solved! The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian Thompson.