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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara's...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly thirty years ago, in the wake of a personal tragedy, June Moore bought Camp Holly Springs and turned it into a thriving summer haven for girls. But now, June is in danger of losing the place she has sacrificed everything for, and begins to realize how much she has used the camp to avoid facing difficulties in her life.
June’s niece, Daphne, met her two best friends, Lanier and Mary Stuart, during a fateful summer at camp. They’ve all helped...
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
Real estate expert Olivia Bellamy reluctantly trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family's old resort camp in the Catskills, where her primary task will be renovating the bungalow colony for her grandparents, who want one last summer together filled with fun, friends and family. A posh resort in its heyday, the camp is now in disarray, and Olivia is forced to hire contractor Connor Davis - a still-smoldering flame from her own summers at camp.
But...
4) The camp
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, a girl's body was found on a ledge above Camp Luft-Shawk, arms crossed over her heart. Some said it was part of a suicide pact, connected to the nearby Haven Commune. Brooke, Rona, and Wendy were among the teenagers at camp that summer, looking for fun and sun, sex and adventure. They've never breathed a word about what really happened--or about the night their friendship shattered. Now the camp, renamed Camp Fog Lake, has reopened...
7) Summer camp
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 18
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
53 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young readers encounter a host of exciting adventures and surprises during their first summer away at camp, in this multiplot tale.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a...
Author
Series
Humphrey adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
167 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When summer arrives, Humphrey, the pet hamster of Longfellow School's Room 26, is surprised and pleased to learn that he will be going to Camp Happy Hollow.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The summers you spend at summer camp are indelibly etched on your heart. But what happens when the camp you love is about to close? Can you ever really say good-bye to the place that made you who you are? These are the questions that plague Ethel, the seventy-year-old former camp director who is nursing a broken heart after losing the love of her life as she now faces the impending closure of the camp on Lake Wenatchee that she called home. It's...
12) Sophie's choice
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1979
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
515 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
13) One candle
Author
Series
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this poem based on "The Night Before Christmas," Rick has the jitters over starting summer day camp, but when he discovers that his counselor is also nervous because she is starting her first job, he feels a lot better.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When four friends with different talents and abilities go to summer camp together, they use their strengths to make camp fun for all.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
"In the new novel from the bestselling author of Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago. Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Animals have different anxieties about going off to summer camp.
A variety of animals with different anxieties about going off to summer camp receive reasurrance, in this story about going to a new place.
Author
Series
Adventures of the Bailey School kids volume no. 14
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
69 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Camp Lone Wolf, the Bailey School kids encounter strange counselors, including a director who may be a werewolf and a swimming teacher who may be the Loch Ness monster.
20) Harmony: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammond family is living in DC, where everything seems to be going just fine until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally - a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly - whose condition is deemed undiagnosable - is kicked out of the last school in the area, her mother, Alexandra, is out of ideas. The family turns to Camp Harmony and the wisdom...