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25th out of 28 books
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21 voters
Nerd Camp
by
Elissa Brent Weissman (Goodreads Author)
Ten-year-old Gabe has just been accepted to the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment. That means he’ll be spending six weeks at sleepaway camp, writing poetry and perfecting logic proofs. SCGE has been a summer home of some legendary middle-school smarty-pants (and future Jeopardy! contestants), but it also has a reputation for being, well, a nerd camp. Gabe isn’t a nerd. I
...moreHardcover, 272 pages
Published
April 26th 2011
by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
(first published April 12th 2011)
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Nerd Camp is a hilarious read and it even features a cameo from Alex Tribeck! It’s a fun story that young nerds and old nerds alike can relate to. Pack your bags and head to Nerd Camp this summer!
--Robert Kent, Middle Grade Ninja
Sorry about that, Esteemed Reader. I was just thinking ahead to when the anniversary edition of Nerd Camp is released and naturally, I assume Antheum Books for Young Readers will insist it include a blurb from yours truly on the cover. I’m just trying to make it easy fo...more
--Robert Kent, Middle Grade Ninja
Sorry about that, Esteemed Reader. I was just thinking ahead to when the anniversary edition of Nerd Camp is released and naturally, I assume Antheum Books for Young Readers will insist it include a blurb from yours truly on the cover. I’m just trying to make it easy fo...more
Summary:
(From About.com) Ten year old Gabe is a nerd. He’s smart, and he embraces it. He loves math, poetry and reading. In fact, the play dates he has with his friends are spent reading or figuring out word problems. Gabe is scheduled to attend the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment, a sleep-away camp where he will spend six weeks immersed in logic, math and poetry. He’s excited, to say the least. Another thing that Gabe is excited about is that his father is getting remarried, and Gabe will b...more
(From About.com) Ten year old Gabe is a nerd. He’s smart, and he embraces it. He loves math, poetry and reading. In fact, the play dates he has with his friends are spent reading or figuring out word problems. Gabe is scheduled to attend the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment, a sleep-away camp where he will spend six weeks immersed in logic, math and poetry. He’s excited, to say the least. Another thing that Gabe is excited about is that his father is getting remarried, and Gabe will b...more
Gabe is excited about going to the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment camp, and also about getting a new stepbrother. His father is getting married,, and his new stepmother has a son who is Gabe's age. Zach is much cooler than Gabe, however, and Gabe's started to be concerned about what Zach will think of him. Once at camp, Gabe throws himself into the geeky fun with his roommates Nikhil and Wesley. They memorize Pi, deal with gross camp food, and put together an algorithm to predict when the c...more
Gabe cannot believe how lucky he is to be getting a new brother; and even better, one who is the same age as him: ten! All his life, Gabe has hoped for a new brother, but since his mom and dad have been divorced for most his life, he never got his wish. Now that his dad is getting remarried, he is getting a new brother named Zack and all Gabe can think about is how much fun the two are going to have together.
What Gabe does not realize yet though, is the struggle he is going to feel when he actua...more
What Gabe does not realize yet though, is the struggle he is going to feel when he actua...more
"For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it could be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zack, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds".
Gabe is excited to meet his divorced dad's future stepson Zack, but when he finds out that Zack hates reading, he worries that he'll will think Gabe's too much of a nerd, since he and his friends LOVE reading. Zack is jealous of Gabe, since Zack's parents ha...more
Gabe is excited to meet his divorced dad's future stepson Zack, but when he finds out that Zack hates reading, he worries that he'll will think Gabe's too much of a nerd, since he and his friends LOVE reading. Zack is jealous of Gabe, since Zack's parents ha...more
Thanks to my buddy, Ann, who suggested this awesome book to me!
This is the story of ten-year-old Gabe. He's super smart -- so smart that he was just accepted to a special summer camp for smart kids -- and he's such an infectiously thoughtful and enthusiastic character, that you can't help but love him from page one.
When Gabe finds out his dad is getting remarried, and he'll have a stepbrother, he's overjoyed and plans out everything he wants to share with his new bro on their first meeting. Whe...more
This is the story of ten-year-old Gabe. He's super smart -- so smart that he was just accepted to a special summer camp for smart kids -- and he's such an infectiously thoughtful and enthusiastic character, that you can't help but love him from page one.
When Gabe finds out his dad is getting remarried, and he'll have a stepbrother, he's overjoyed and plans out everything he wants to share with his new bro on their first meeting. Whe...more
Nerd Camp is based on the Johns Hopkins' Center for Talented Youth, but anyone who has been to an academics-based summer camp will recognize the setting. Gabe is a 10-year-old nerd who is really excited about going to the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment for the first time, where he'll get to take classes in poetry and logical reasoning along with traditional summer camp activities like kayaking and swimming. But then he meets his soon-to-be stepbrother, Zack, a kid who is ultracool and makes...more
Gabe is excited to go to a summer camp for smart kids, but then he meets his new stepbrother Zack. Zack thinks sleepaway camp is so cool - but makes fun of some kids he knows who are going to "nerd camp." Gabe decides to write letters to Zack telling him only the cool things that happen at camp. And he also decides to make a logic proof to show that he is not a nerd by listing the fun, cool activities he does and the nerdy activities. As the summer goes on, Gabe has a great time at camp, and beg...more
A big fan of mystery, I picked up Nerd Camp because I was looking for something different to read. I am so glad I did because what I read was totally unexpected. Initially I thought this would be a story of nerdy things mixed with your typical summer camp story. I never expected a fast paced, hilarious, non-typical story. I could not put the book down and ended up reading it at home in one sitting. I love the “I am a nerd” and “I am not a nerd” lists Gabe made for Zach, the letters home, and the...more
Oct 13, 2011
Beth G.
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommended to Beth by:
Cybils Nomination
Shelves:
2011,
fiction,
funny,
summer-camp,
gifted-kids,
library-books,
books-for-kids,
author-female,
5-star
Problem: Am I a nerd who only has nerdy adventures?
Hypothesis: No.
Ten-year-old Gabe is finally getting what he always wanted: a brother. His soon-to-be-stepmother has a son, Zack, who is his age. Gabe is sure that he and Zack will be best friends, but their first meeting is less than promising. Gabe quickly realizes that all the things he likes - math team, reading, museums and libraries - Zack sees as "nerdy". The only thing about Gabe that seems to impress Zack is that Gabe is about to go to s...more
Hypothesis: No.
Ten-year-old Gabe is finally getting what he always wanted: a brother. His soon-to-be-stepmother has a son, Zack, who is his age. Gabe is sure that he and Zack will be best friends, but their first meeting is less than promising. Gabe quickly realizes that all the things he likes - math team, reading, museums and libraries - Zack sees as "nerdy". The only thing about Gabe that seems to impress Zack is that Gabe is about to go to s...more
Cybils Book Review
The book Nerd Camp, by Elissa Brent Weissman is a story about a boy accepting who he is. The main character Gabe has been just introduced to his soon to be step brother, Zack. In Gabe’s eyes Zack is a “cool” kid and desperately wants to be accepted by him. However, Gabe is a self-proclaimed “nerd” and isn’t sure how he is going to make that happen; especially since she going away to a summer camp for gifted kids.
This book would appeal to 5th-8th graders, both boys and girls ali...more
May 13, 2013
Heather
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
tween readers
Recommended to Heather by:
Loryn
Shelves:
libr-264-tweens-9-13-age-group
Ten-year-old Gabe wanted more than anything to have a sibling. He was finally getting what he wished for. His father was remarrying and his new wife had a son, Zack, who happened to be the same age as Gabe. Gabe thought having a new brother was going to be great, but upon meeting Zack for the first time, Gabe realized that maybe it was not going to be so great after all. Right away Gabe started to omit certain qualities about himself, because he wanted Zack to think he was cool. Gabe loved to re...more
I would actually give this 3 1/2 stars, if that were allowed, but I am rounding up, due to this being about nerds. The book is a fairly standard tween type book, with one kid wondering if his nerdiness will keep his new stepbrother from liking him, but at the same time really enjoying his nerdy summer camp. The nerdiness questions get a little old after a while, but I think they have to be there.
As an interesting aside: this is one of the few American books I have read, where relationships to f...more
As an interesting aside: this is one of the few American books I have read, where relationships to f...more
Gabe is about to get something he has always wanted, a brother. His soon to be brother Zack is a really cool kid from LA. Gabe really likes Zack but realizes that while Zack thinks it is cool that Gabe gets to go to camp he will not think it is cool if he knows that Gabe is going to summer camp for Gifted Enrichment otherwise known as nerd camp. At camp Gabe tries to prove his theory that he is cool by creating a list of everything fun he has does at camp. In one column is what he can tell Zack...more
This was an okay book. I enjoyed it. It wasn't great, but it did give the reader some food for thought about being yourself, enjoying yourself and not being so concerned with what others think about you. The book is set at a camp for gifted students. The main character, Gabe is about to gain a stepbrother and for the first time in his life is concerned that he may be a nerd. He’d never thought about it much, but compared to Zack, his hip, soon-to-be-stepbrother from LA, Gabe’s not so sure where...more
This book was pretty charming. The author has little boy internal drama nailed! I love that the hero of the story (nerdy Gabe) was so honest about his need for approval. So often I read these unrealistic nerd-narratives where the nerd strikes it out on their own - either into isolation or to joing some band of misfit fellow nerds . . . equating nerd success with either a) only being surrounded by fellow dweebs or b) being a total loner. I've always thought nerds were better than that, and this b...more
Score one for the Nerds! Nerd Camp was an awesome, funny, heartwarming story about a boy named Gabe who wants his new step brother, Zack to think he's cool. So when he goes to SCGE (Summer Camp for Gifted Enrichment) he lets Zack think it's just a normal camp. Gabe writes letters to Zack telling him all the great adventures he has (all true) but leaves out the nerdy parts. Gabe also creates a logic board to see if he is really a nerd. The ending is just perfect, too, allowing the reader to see t...more
Quick, funny book about a smart 10-year-old who tries to keep his cool new step-brother from realizing that the awesome summer camp he is attending is a camp for "gifted enrichment". There are a lot of funny moments, especially the chart Gabe keeps over the summer: "Problem: Am I a nerd who only has nerdy adventures? Hypothesis: No." I think fans of the Alvin Ho books will enjoy this. The only thing I didn't like is that once again here is a book with a smart kid who is embarrassed by his smartn...more
This book is based off of CTY, a nerd camp. I've attended CTY's sister camp, CTD for many, many summers. This was an interesting book to read to think about how the good times roll at CTD and how not everything at the camp is about learning. You do lots of fun activities that "normal" kids would do too. It was fun to think about the time I went to CTD when I was ten and compare it to this book. Otherwise, I don't think I would've liked this book. The plot is pretty cliche and the ending is predi...more
Nov 19, 2012
Gigi
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Grades 3-6
Shelves:
read-and-loved,
msba-2012
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I put off reading this one till past review deadline time, but turned out to enjoy it quite a lot. The author really knows what makes gifted kids tick, and so it was filled with lots of funny little details, along with a believable main character and a plot that moves along quickly. I wish I didn't think kids will only read it if they consider themselves nerds because it has something to say to the non-nerds out there too. It even has a nice little jab at kids who go to the library that would ma...more
Gabe is finally getting what he always wanted, a brother! When Gabe's dad announces that he is getting remarried, and his new wife has a son the same age as Gabe, Gabe couldn't be more thrilled. It may not be a baby brother, but any brother is better than none. Then Gabe meets Zack. Zack is cool and Gabe, well, he is a kinda a nerd. How long can Gabe hide this fact from Zack? Should Gabe try to change to be like Zack? And will Zack still like Gabe when he finds out that Gabe is a nerd?
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This is a fun story that makes you want to attend a summer camp for gifted kids. The main character is a 10-year-old boy who is thrilled by math problems, science and poetry, but feels that he has to hide his interests from his new stepbrother to be accepted.
I would say the characters talk and act more like 6th graders. For example, the main character works on a logic proof throughout the story to determine whether he is a nerd. My 10-year-old daughter just finished 4th grade at a great school a...more
I would say the characters talk and act more like 6th graders. For example, the main character works on a logic proof throughout the story to determine whether he is a nerd. My 10-year-old daughter just finished 4th grade at a great school a...more
Oh, how do I describe my love for this book? I'll do my absolute best to touch on all the parts that really made me fall in love, but I can promise you now you'll need to go and pick up a copy of Nerd Camp. The dialogue and adventures are laugh out loud funny, and it's just such a fun read! Where else are you going to find a karaoke battle featuring the countries of the world in alphabetical order? Did I peak your interest? Good, read on!
As young characters go, Gabe and his posse of camp buddies...more
As young characters go, Gabe and his posse of camp buddies...more
ELISSA BRENT WEISSMAN'S "NERD CAMP" (REVIEW)
This is a fantastic book for kids from ages 8 to 12. I just finished it and it is not only an entertaining story but it's fun and teaches a kids a valuable lesson about how important it is to just be themselves. The story is written with just the right amount of humor to keep you interested and even teaches you a few interesting facts along the way! I would definitely recommend this book to children of this age group and even to adults that enjoy a goo...more
This is a fantastic book for kids from ages 8 to 12. I just finished it and it is not only an entertaining story but it's fun and teaches a kids a valuable lesson about how important it is to just be themselves. The story is written with just the right amount of humor to keep you interested and even teaches you a few interesting facts along the way! I would definitely recommend this book to children of this age group and even to adults that enjoy a goo...more
Gabe is so excited about taking poetry and logic proof classes at the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment. The only drawback to Gabe’s awesome summer is that he has to hide the fact from his soon-to-be stepbrother, Zack, that the sleepaway camp is also considered a “nerd” camp. Gabe spends the summer racking his brains to prove that he definitely is not a nerd, although he does enjoy participating in activities that require heavy thinking.
Gabe has always wanted a sibling. Now that his dad is marrying someone with a son his age, he'll finally have a brother. Except for one small problem - Gabe is a nerd and his brother-to-be Zach is cool. Zach would never like someone who's so smart he wants to spend his summer at a camp for gifted kids. So starts Gabe's summer of enjoying his "nerdiness" while trying to make it sound cool to Zach, who doesn't know he's at Nerd camp.
Nerd Camp is a really fun and engaging read for tween boys. Gabe is good kid who doesn't mind being smart, but he wants to be liked, too. His parents are divorced and he lives with his single mother, with whom he has a close relationship. In addition to being an ...(click here for the full review http://storysnoops.com/detail.php?id=... )
If you know a brainy young bookworm who could use some fun summer reading, pick up a copy of Nerd Camp. Not only is it a fun story filled with quirky characters, but it’ll show your favorite smarty-pants that it’s okay (and even cool) to be a nerd.
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Read this book in a few hours - great story for those kids who feel "different" becasue they are gifted. Gabe wants his cool new step-brother to like him, but thisnks Zack won't if he knows what a nerd Gabe is. Summer camp changes his perspective. Lots of funny moments in this one - great read-aloud material.
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