Need new ideas for summer camp reading

[Kay]

I go to a summer camp for people with disabilities.

I'm looking for a total of five books around 300 pages each that take place in summer camp or a summer camp for people with disabilities. A total of twelve suggestions would be good from each person as I'll have options.

Must be children's books

Thanks

[Ann]

Here are a couple of lists:


Summer Camp Picture Books -https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Summer Camp Fiction for Young Readers - https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

[Kay]

thank you but I'd prefer links to books. not links to reading lists

[Rainbowheart]

Camped Out
The Acorn People
Deaf Child Crossing
Accidents of Nature
Everything Beautiful
The Season of You & Me
Summer on the Short Bus
Mystery at Camp Triumph
The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland

[Rosa]

Paul Has a Summer Job

[Kay]

i need more suggestions please. Four more with horse summer camps

[Barbara]

Well there is an older book called "The Horsemasters" by Don Stanford, about young people at an equestrian academy.

Camp books: The Cornerstone, Randall Beth Platt
Camp Zombie, Megan Stine
Summer Camp Creeps, Tim Schoch
The Goats, Brock Cole
The Acorn People, Ron Jones (non fiction)

[Kay]

please can i have book links?

[SamSpayedPI]

Not quite a "children's book" but suitable for older children: City Boy. It takes place in early 20th century in the Bronx and in a summer camp.

Just Plain Maggie: standard "girl struggles with homesickness and an unfriendly bunkmate but ends up having a fun summer" fare.

[Anna]

I think The Lightning Thief starts in a summer camp.

[Kay]

it does but I've read Percy Jackson

[Pamela]

Another vote for The Horsemasters by Don Stanford, if you can find it. It's about young adults (the main character is eighteen) but doesn't have any "adult" content, and I read it as a fourth grader. It's still one of my favorite books. The Horsemasters

[Kay]

not my type of book, sadly

[Rainbowheart]

Are you looking for any horse camps or just horse summer camps for kids with disabilities?

[Kay]

horse camps
summer camps
camps for people with disabilities

three different types of books

[Rosa]

These I've read, and they're good:
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
One of the Family

These I haven't:
Horse Crazy
Horseback Summer

Sorry for any that aren't 300 pages long. I doubt there are many kids' books about summer camp that are that long.

[Rosa]

Mikayla wrote: "not my type of book, sadly"

What doesn't appeal to you about it?

[Rosa]

No Boys Allowed is the first in the Camp Sunnyside Friends series.
Here are the books that were mentioned but not linked:
The Cornerstone: A Novel
Camp Zombie
Summer Camp Creeps
The Goats
Mandy (wonderful book, but not about summer camp)

[stella 🍓]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord

[Kay]

Rosa wrote: "No Boys Allowed is the first in the Camp Sunnyside Friends series.
Here are the books that were mentioned but not linked:
The Cornerstone: A Novel
[book:Camp Zombie|957..."

Is No Boys Allowed humor?

[Rosa]

I don't know for sure, but I'd assume so.

[Kay]

Still looking

[Paige]

When you say "Must be children's books," what age range are we talking about here?

[Rainbowheart]

Out of My Heart
Hoops and Hopes

[SamSpayedPI]

In addition to the previously mentioned City Boy and Just Plain Maggie, I thought of Laura's Luck. It's the second in a series but stands alone pretty well.

[Paige]

I really think I could do this better if I knew the age range of the campers, but here's a few oldies but goodies that I remember passing around at camp that are at lest in the neighborhood of 300 pages:

Donna Parker at Cherrydale 282 pages
Cherry Ames, Camp Nurse 224 pages
Sal Fisher at Girl Scout Camp 218 pages
Maida's Little Camp 214 pages
Five in a Tent 200 pages


They were old then, and none of them are 300 pages, but, I hope it helps.
I tried to think of material that would come close to that 300 page mark. It would be easier to come up with some clean, relatively contemporary pieces that involve horse camps/summer camps if it wasn't for that 300 page per book goal.

[Kay]

Paige wrote: "When you say "Must be children's books," what age range are we talking about here?"

I cant read books above a 6th grade reading level

[SamSpayedPI]

SuperTuxKart360(Brigham) wrote: "(THIS SHOULD BE IN UNSOLVED FOLDER)"

No, Kay is looking for book suggestions, not a specific book.

[PaulGamerBoy360]

10 Books About Summer Camp

https://pjlibrary.org/beyond-books/pj...

[Paige]

I may be off base with this next recommendation. Iit's a series about a girl at horse camp, but none of the books are anywhere near 300 pages, more like 121 or so, but I'm still going to suggest it:
Horseback Summer first book in series