The Girl-Empowering Institution: Lumberjanes by N. While there are admittedly entirely too many adults letting their life plans be dictated by twelve-year-olds in this book, the whole thing is such a fun roller coaster of emotions that suspending that particular thread of disbelief is more than worth it.Īnd for my fellow audiophiles, the fully soundscaped audiobook is narrated by Imani Parks, Cassandra Morris and a full cast, runs 6 hours 13 minutes long, and can be found on Libro.fm here. To Night Owl from Dogfish is a charmer of a middle grade epistolary novel that uses emails, texts, postcards, and voicemails to take readers through the burgeoning, camp-set friendship of two girls who just might become stepsisters, if all goes well with their parents’ courtship back home. The Epistolary BFF Charm: To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer So dive in-whatever vibe you’re after, there’s a summer camp read here for you. Sweet? Adventure-filled? Terrifying? Queer? Yes! These ten books cover all those and more. So, while this list doesn’t even come close to covering all the great summer camp-themed books that are out there, it does at least run the gamut of what a summer camp book can be. Actually, scratch that: I diving into these summer camp-themed books, we don’t just get to see what we missed by having *A* camp experience of our own, we get to vicariously experience a whole universe of cabin-and-canoe summers, even when we’re stuck at home, and even when summer is fading and another school year is lurking just around the corner.

Thankfully, for those of us who never got that classic summer sleepaway camp experience, there is no end to the number of summer camp-themed books we can fall into to get a sense of what we missed. Still, while it may seem like every fictional character imaginable has spent at least one summer at a sleepaway camp, research suggests that in reality, it’s only a vanishingly small percentage of parents who send their kids away for even part of the summer. From The Parent Trap to Bug Juice, from Hey Dude to Bunk’d, summer camp has long been a favorite of Hollywood, on screens both big and small. Summer camp looms large in the American imagination.

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