Camp Expert: Abby's Camp Days, Volume 1
Author
Jenifer Brady
Publisher
BookSurge Publishing
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Most kids feel nervous when they go off to summer camp by themselves for the first time. Not Abby Riley. At the age of nine, she’s already a church camp expert, having tagged along every summer with her pastor father, who runs the week for junior-high-aged kids. This is the summer Abby has been waiting for, the summer she finally gets to be a “real” camper at elementary camp instead of just her dad’s guest.
But when Abby gets to camp, she discovers that life as an elementary camper is nothing like hanging out at camp as a dean’s kid. Elementary camp is full of rules, rules, and more rules! She has to follow a strict schedule, swim only in the shallow, roped-off area, and share a tiny cabin with a bunch of strangers. Worst of all, the counselors and campers at elementary camp are all new faces—none of the camp friends she already knows. She can’t even complain to her best friend Carin about camp because Carin is in love with both camp and their cute, seventeen-year-old counselor.
What Abby really wants to do, for the first time in her camp life, is pack her suitcase and go home, but she decides that she needs to stay and change things at this strange elementary camp. Will Abby change camp, or will camp change her?
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Going to camp every year with her family made it so Abby was prepared for her first year of elementary camp alone. Arriving at camp registration only to find that none of the camp counselors that she knew where going to be there left her a little nervous, but she was bound determined to not let a few new faces scare her away. Learning all the new rules was the hard part, as the deans daughter at junior high camp, she was given run of the place and options of which activities she wanted to take part of. As a camper of the elementary camp, she had restrictions on when to do what, she didn’t like that at all. Wondering how she was ever going to have fun at camp with all these rules, Abby set out to change a few. Her only goal was to make it more fun for everyone, she couldn’t understand why her friend Carin could be enjoying herself, but she seemed to be. The only problem was that the harder Abby tried to make things how she was used to from junior high camp, the less fun she was having all the while watching while everyone else seemed to be having a great time with the way things where.
Reviewed on 12/05/2011 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Debbie Berry
