This is really four and a half separate stories, loosely joined by the fact that the four girls and their counselor were at camp together and send each other letters and cookies. I read this more than a week ago and the details have already slipped my mind, but I remember thinking the stories weren't all that compelling except for the girl whose grandmother died and then her mother had a nervous breakdown. The other stories didn't do much for me, and it didn't help that they all ended before the denouement, so we didn't find out what happened until they sent a letter to the next girl describing how things had played out--so telling, not showing. I also felt really sorry for the girl who lost control of her neighbor's dog, because seriously, if you're too cheap to send your dog to a kennel for a weekend or hire a professional dog sitter, and you basically force/guilt a little girl who knows little about dogs, doesn't really want to do the job, and is not strong enough to control your poorly-trained large dog, you get what you pay for and she shouldn't feel at all guilty. But anyway, this wasn't a winner for me.