SOLVED. middle grade, about kids at a summer camp with corrupt leaders i think, ends with them overtaking(?) the camp somehow, tree on the cover, read around 2002-2004 [s]

[lacie]

thank you so much!

[Alan]

The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian Thompson could be a start, though it's probably more YA than middle grade.

[Rainbowheart]

Breaking Camp?

The Butterfly Revolution?

Sharkes in the North Woods?

[lacie]

just looked at all of those. it’s none of those, i think i probably got it at a scholastic book fair so i’m pretty sure it would be a book that came out in early 2000s. also, it’s a co-ed camp with boys and girls (about 85% sure it had both genders but it definitely had girls)

[Rainbowheart]

Would you describe it as horror?

Was there anything supernatural going on in the book?

[lacie]

i would say it was much more lighthearted and fun. but it was a mystery of sorts i believe. i’m MOST SURE about it being a camp, it being co ed, the time period it came out, and there being a tree on the cover with maybe hand prints or footprints somewhere on it? there were not specific people or kids on the cover.

[Rainbowheart]

Does anything on this list look familiar?

Summer Camp Fiction for Young Readers

[Christine]

Sounds a little like Letters from Camp by Kate Klise

[lacie]

I really think that might be it. thank you so much. i’m gunna order it and read it to see if it is right

[Kris]

Kirkus Review of Letters from Camp by Kate Klise - Christine's suggestion:

"... wild spoof of camp life told entirely in letters, memos, and whimsical illustrations... Three sets of brothers and sisters who hate each other find themselves trapped in Camp Happy Harmony, which promises to teach battling siblings love and respect. But the Harmony family, a crowd of has-been singers, turn out to be thieving con-artists plotting to murder each other. Led by the egotistical Darlene Harmony, the family uses the campers for drudge work, assigning them to paint buildings and build fences, feeding them drugged dinners and very little else..."

[lacie]

Thank you all so much!

[Kris]

Iacie, should we mark your request as Solved?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

No response. Moving to Solved.