Color War!

Camp Sunnyside Friends #3

by Marilyn Kaye

Trina and Kate have been best friends forever, but when the two end up on opposite sides in Camp Sunnyside's color war, their friendship is sorely tested.

Genres: Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1989

About the author

I was born in New Britain, Connecticut, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. I also spent a year (5th grade) in Montgomery, Alabama, and a year in Ann Arbor, Michigan(8th grade). As a child, I always wanted to be a writer, but I had lots of other ambitions too. I wanted to be a teacher, a librarian, a movie star, the president of the United States, and a ballerina.

I didn't achieve all my goals. I never became a movie star, the president of the U.S., or a ballerina. But I've been a teacher and a librarian and most of all, a writer. I've been writing for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I always kept a diary. I wrote poems, stories, plays, songs and lots of letters. Writing wasn't easy for me, but it felt natural and right.

I've always read a lot, too. I was an English major at Emory University (I love Shakespeare), and I also received a master's degree in library science at Emory. I earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago, and I taught children's and teen literature at St. John's University in New York for over 20 years. Now, I'm a full-time writer, living in Paris, France - the most beautiful city in the world.

Reviews

[Teresa Granado-Law · Rating 3 out of 5]

STOP - MAJOR SPOILER ALERT! I'm about to SPILL IT ALL COMPLETELY. Do not read further if you do not want to know please!
Seriously, I'm going to give away the ending. The reason I do this is because sometimes I read a review to find out if I read the book already and I want to remember what actually happened.

SO
Here it goes.

Cabin 6 automatically assumes they will all be on the Blue team in the Camp color war games. In the morning, Trina (Katie's BFF) and Erin (the glamour girl with nail polish) realize they are on Team RED. Trina is devastated. She does not want to war with her BFF Katie.

Team leaders are chosen. Maura is Red Captain (and kind of a bully), Katie is voted Team Blue Captain. In game after game, Trina purposely fails in order to give Katie the win. Because Katie "really wants to win."

Eventually, team members of Trina get it into her head that Katie is trying to take her down, manipulate her and that if given the chance, Katie would demolish Trina.
Trina realizes she needs to give it her all and kick Katie's butt.
Katie's team does win the color war afterall and they end up best friends again

[Hgoldy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good. Nice campy book

[Robyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

The classic camp saga of blue versus red, to be continued every November at an American voting poll booth near you!