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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...
4) Camp
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Click volume 2
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Olive and Willow are happy campers! Or are they? Olive is sure she'll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow--but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows--Olive. It's s'more than Olive can handle! The stress of being Willow's living security blanket begins to wear on Olive and before long... the girls aren't just fighting, they may not...
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"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...
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As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
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Michigan brides collection volume 1
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English
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Lily Young's search for her lost sister takes her to Harrison, Michigan, where she meets Connell McCormick. Soon Lily has Connell's help, but the danger they face may cost them everything.
8) Bad magic
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2014.
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"Thirteen-year-old Clay, a boy who no longer believes in magic, tags graffiti on his classroom wall and, as punishment, is sent to a camp for wayward kids located on a volcanic island, where eccentric campmates abound, a ghost walks among the abandoned ruins of a mansion, and a dangerous force threatens to erupt with bad magic"--
9) Girlchild
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.
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Middle school (James Patterson) volume 4
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English
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"When Rafe Khatchadorian is sent to Camp Wannamorra, he teams up with his bunk mates to fend off the more "popular" kids' plans to ruin their summer"--Provided by publisher.
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 9
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English
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Twelve-year-old Billy, baffled at the series of strange, unexplained events taking place at his summer camp in the desert wilderness, considers escaping the horrors forever, especially after campers start disappearing.
12) Bad luck
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2016.
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English
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"Clay's adventures at a magical camp continue as he befriends a new ally and faces new adversaries in his journey to find his magical talent and solve new mysteries of Price Island"--
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Eleanor Kane books volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
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"As the days go on, nine-year-old Eleanor realizes that maybe being at summer camp isn't so bad after all, and is full of special surprises"--
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1967
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English
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Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line...
15) Wherever I go
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Abia is the self-proclaimed Queen of the Shimelba refugee camp, facing her displacement with strength, imagination, and pride.
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Camp Rolling Hills volume 1
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Stephanie (a.k.a. "Slimey") and Bobby (a.k.a. "Smelly") have concerns regarding their family back home. Stephanie is returning to the camp she adores; Bobby is a first-time camper who does not really understand lots of what is going on around him during his first exposure to life at summer camp."--
17) Seventeen wishes
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Series
Christy Miller series volume 9
Publisher
Bethany House Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Christy goes to summer camp determined to pack her time with romantic memories.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
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...
20) Nothin' but net
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Tim Daniels gets a chance to go to basketball camp, he is faced with trying to be accepted by the popular players and remaining true to his friend who has become the butt of practical jokes.