Orem Library

Ernest P. Worrell, handyman at Kamp Kikakee, achieves his greatest ambition and becomes a camp counselor to a gang of juvenile delinquents from the Midstate Boys Detention Center.

Traces the author's "farewell to childhood" summer spent working at a Maine boys' camp throughout the eight weeks leading up to his marriage, a period fraught with adolescent antics, swimming lessons, and memories about his own youth.

"Nineteen-year-old Sam's summer isn't off to a great start. Her boyfriend, Eli, ditched her for a European backpacking trip and now she's a counselor at Camp Blue Springs: the summer camp her eleven-year-old self swore never to return to. Sam expects the next seven weeks to be a total disaster. That is, until she meets Gavin, the camp's sailing instructor, who turns her expectations upside down. Gavin may have gotten the job just for his abs. Or that...

Emmett finds a new group of friends at summer camp since his older brother, Luke, is a junior counselor and doesn't seem to have time for him anymore.

Ernest goes to camp: Ernest P. Worrell, handyman at Kamp Kikakee, achieves his greatest ambition and becomes a camp counselor--to a gang of juvenile delinquents from the Midstate Boys Detention Center. Ernest goes to jail: Only a bumbling bank janitor like know-it-all Ernest P. Worrell could serve on a jury and end up serving time in jail in place of the criminal.

When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of times....

The High Council is coming to camp and counselor Jen is determined to make everything perfect, even though a storm is brewing and kittens from the boys' camp are manifesting magical powers. It's every Lumberjane on deck as the girls do their best to prep the grounds for inspection-- but there are some storms no one can prepare for.

Las Leñadoras reciben una visita de altos vuelos en El Campamento Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet para Chicas Molonas y Jane quiere que todo esté preparado para tan magno evento. Con lo que no cuenta es con una invasión de Gatetes Mágicos, una inesperada desaparición y unos pájaros gigantes que convierten a la gente en piedra; así que April, Jo, Mal, Molly y Ripley van a estar realmente ocupadas.