Companion to: Tornado brain. Mere months after her best friend's death, thirteen-year-old Tess spends a summer with family in Wyoming, making friends at art camp while being haunted by Colette and her own anxieties.

"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight ... if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp, and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...

Four crocodile friends have many adventures during a camp-out.

Little sister Jessie is a nuisance at day camp, until a crisis threatens to ruin the talent show and she saves the day.

"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....

Because of Cara's special magic, campers can navigate through the woods, stay cool during the day, and do lots of fun activities. But Jack Frost has sent his goblins to steal Cara's magic. Now camp is a catastrophe! Can Rachel and Kirsty help Cara fix things before the whole summer is ruined?

In the first story, Jake Sherman keeps having to relive the first day of summer camp, including the bus ride and the chop suey for lunch, and it's getting really boring. In the second story, Jake Sherman and his friends go to Camp Grimley, and find that their back-to-nature counselor is not what he seems.

Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of being an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. An exhilarating flirtation reshapes her life, though, and she finds herself banished to a rural Colorado outpost, married to a man she hardly knows. Overwhelmed by loneliness, Olivia tentatively tries to establish a new life, finding much-needed friendship and solace in two Japanese...

"Emma is not thrilled with always needing to rearrange he schedule to babysit her younger brother, Jake, after school. But it's summer, and Emma is free--or so she thinks. Emma's parents have broken the news that really threatens to push Emma over the edge: Emma and Jake are going to the same day camp together. And Emma will have to babysit Jake on the bus. Every day. Can't Emma catch a break?"--Publisher.

The Berenstain cubs enjoy day camp, although they are dubious about the end-of-season pow-wow and sleep-out at the top of Skull Rock.