Camp
Book Details
Author(s)Elaine Wolf
PublisherSky Pony Press
ISBN / ASIN1616086572
ISBN-139781616086572
AvailabilityUsually ships in 1-2 business days
Sales Rank2,792,391
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A coming-of-age novel about bullying, family relationships, and the collateral damage of secrets. A great choice for book clubs (adult groups as well as teen).
Every secret has a price.
For most girls, sleepaway camp is great fun. But for Amy Becker, it's a nightmare. Amy, whose home life is in turmoil, is sent to Camp Takawanda for Girls for the first time as a teenager. Although Amy swears she hates her German-immigrant mother, who is unduly harsh with Amy's autistic younger brother, Amy is less than thrilled about going to camp. At Takawanda she is subjected to a humiliating "initiation" and relentless bullying by the ringleader of the senior campers. As she struggles to stop the mean girls from tormenting her, Amy becomes more confident. Then a cousin reveals dark secrets about Amy's mother's past, which sets in motion a tragic event that changes Amy and her family forever.
Winner of the Forward National Literature Award and selected as a book-of-the-month by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (New York), CAMP is widely recommended by librarians, teachers, and book groups.
For most girls, sleepaway camp is great fun. But for Amy Becker, it's a nightmare. Amy, whose home life is in turmoil, is sent to Camp Takawanda for Girls for the first time as a teenager. Although Amy swears she hates her German-immigrant mother, who is unduly harsh with Amy's autistic younger brother, Amy is less than thrilled about going to camp. At Takawanda she is subjected to a humiliating "initiation" and relentless bullying by the ringleader of the senior campers. As she struggles to stop the mean girls from tormenting her, Amy becomes more confident. Then a cousin reveals dark secrets about Amy's mother's past, which sets in motion a tragic event that changes Amy and her family forever.
Winner of the Forward National Literature Award and selected as a book-of-the-month by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (New York), CAMP is widely recommended by librarians, teachers, and book groups.
