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English
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In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
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English
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
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...
6) Bad luck
Author
Language
English
Description
"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"--
8) Paper heart
Author
Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
274, 15 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mere months after her best friend's death, thirteen-year-old Tess spends a summer with family in Wyoming, making friends at art camp while being haunted by Colette and her own anxieties.
9) Get lost!
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
76 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katie Carew's third-grade class spends three days at Science Camp, where Katie magically changes places with the strict Head Counselor while on a hike and gets her group hopelessly lost. Includes directions for making all-natural soap.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tacky the penguin and his friends go to Camp Whoopihaha where they scare each other by telling ghost stories around the campfire, never expecting that one of the frightening stories will come true.
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Internment
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English
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"Rebellions are built on hope. In a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of new friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards." --
13) Chiggers
Author
Language
English
Description
When Abby returns to the same summer camp she always goes to, she is dismayed to find that her old friends have changed, and the only person who wants to be her friend is the strange new girl, Shasta.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
129 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his brother, Colin, takes the pendant in which the ghostly Nicky and Tara's parents may be trapped, Max must follow him to Camp Snake Lake and try to retrieve the pendant before evil ghosts find it.
15) Dodi's Prince
Author
Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
122 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Dodi hopes to overcome the objections of her family and Texas trailer park neighbors so that she can keep the stray dog she calls Prince.
17) A campfire tail
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Everything goes wrong on Dragon's first day at camp, despite his buddy's efforts to show him a good time, until Dragon has a chance to show what he does well.
18) Wolf camp
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
35 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Homer the dog goes away to wolf camp to learn how to bring out his inner wolf"--
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