Wish You Weren't Here (Camp Confidential, #8) (Summer Camp Secrets)
by Melissa J. Morgan
Sarah loves Camp Lakeview because she can get away from her geeky school image and be fun and sporty instead. But this summer, schoolmate Abby is at Lakeview too, and with her around, Sarah's so self-conscious that she turns from star softball player into a complete disaster area - and Abby can't seem to help rubbing it in.Girls will be lining up to get their hands on the next batch of "Summer Camp Secrets", which are sure to attract a new legion of fans too!
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Having reluctantly agreed to run for sixth-grade president, Jerry, who has been trying to change his image as a dork, finds his opponent playing dirty tricks on him.
After her mother is murdered and her father is accused, 16-year-old Tate McCoy tries to prove her father's innocence and to enjoy the summer with her best friend Kale, a crush on her swim instructor, and time outdoors.
A boy who grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century Chicago runs away, joins the cavalry, and fights with General Custer in the battle of Little Big Horn.
The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars.
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