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[READ: August 2021] Secrets of Camp Whatever
I’m not sure who brought this book home, my wife or my daughter, but I was pretty delighted to read it.
Two kids are heading to the town of Nowhere with their parents. They are moving into their father’s mother’s old house on the outskirts of town. It’s a small town and when they pull into the local diner, the waitress tells them to turn around and go back home… that place is haunted. But the local museum owner, Henry Person, tells them not to believe that nonsense.
He says that Nowhere is known for unusual things–monsters in the lakes, elves in the forest, even a bigfoot sighting. But the fog is so thick no one can confirm anything.
Willow is going to summer camp and is not particularly pleased about it. Her younger brother Gryphon is not going to camp, but he really wants to. Where’s the justice? When their mother hears about the fog and the creepiness around the camp she wonders whether they should even send WIllow.
But the kids’ dad when to Camp … Whatever like a million years ago and he is pretty excited for Willow to go. He can’t wait for her to hear all about the camp at the opening campfire. Even if a kid did go missing the year he was there… and was never heard from again.
But Mr Person says the camp hired a new camp director … Clarence Tooter, a big game hunter. He’ll keep the place safe.
A nice touch is that Willow uses a hearing aid, but it’s not a big deal to the story. Except that Mr Tooter believes she is deaf and so he yells at here whenever he sees her. And that sign language is very important to the story (although the reader doesn’t need to know it). (more…)
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