Carolina gets another welcome surprise when she stumbles upon a long-abandoned cottage in the woods near the campsite and immediately sees its potential as a creative haven for making art. Just as Carolina worries she’ll have to spend the entire summer in Gabriela’s shadow, she makes a friend of her own in Jennifer, a fellow artist. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows camp, where her bossy older cousin Gabriela rules the social scene. If she fails, the pack may be splintered for good.Įleven-year-old Carolina’s summer–and life as she knows it–is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter’s house in upstate New York. Soon Lucy finds herself alone, left to fix the messes she’s made. Even worse? A thief is targeting everyone but Lucy, setting her up to look guilty. But when the wrong campers pair up, the pack falls apart, all under the watchful eye of a secret blogger who’s been writing about the camp’s activities. One successful match made, Lucy starts to see potential lovebirds everywhere. The old man needs some softening up, and Lucy knows just the person for the job: Grandma. Bosserman, the grouchy camp leader who won’t budge on the camp’s caveman theme. Why does the word “boyfriend” make her blush? She needs a distraction.Įnter Mr. Lucy wonders why she misses him so much-it’s not like he’s her boyfriend. And Grandma’s coming too-as the lunch lady for the camp next door.īut Sam backs out at the last minute to attend a gymnastics camp instead. Like cavemen, the campers are going to have to make do without air conditioning, and they’ll dig for fossils during the day.
Sheldon convinces Lucy, Sam, April, and Amanda to join him at Camp Paleo. Adjust your head-gear, pack your camp bag, and get ready to geek out!
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This clever, fun read from Elissa Brent Weissman is full of great minor characters (like a bunkmate who solves math problems in his sleep) and silly subplots (like the geekiest lice outbreak ever). Gabe worries that Zack will see him only as a nerd, until a wild summer at camp-complete with a midnight canoe ride to “Dead Man’s Island”-helps Gabe realize that he and Zack have the foundations for a real friendship. S.C.G.E = Smart Camp for Geeks and Eggheads.īut is Gabe really a geek? He’s never thought about it much-but that was before he met Zack, his hip, LA-cool, soon-to-be stepbrother. has been a summer home to some legendary middle-school smarty-pants (and future Jeopardy! contestants), but it has a reputation for being, well, a Nerd Camp. That means he’ll be spending six weeks at sleepaway camp, writing poetry and perfecting logic proofs. Ten-year-old Gabe has just been accepted to the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment.
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