| The Summer Camp Mystery Contributor(s): Warner, Gertrude Chandler (Created by) |
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ISBN: 0807554790 ISBN-13: 9780807554791 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're spending a week at Camp Seagull on beautiful Claw Island. When they arrive at Camp Seagull, the Alden children look forward to a week of new friends, exciting activities, and most of all, the annual camp Olympics. But as soon as camp begins, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny realize that someone is not playing fair. Everything begins to go wrong for the Aldens -- they lose their luggage, Henry misplaces the camp flag, and campers on the other team use one of Jessie's ideas to score points for themselves. Are some campers so desperate to win the Olympics that they are willing to cheat? The Boxcar Children are determined to solve the mystery before the competition is ruined for everyone! |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Siblings - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 610 |
| Series: Boxcar Children Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.23" W x 7.59" (0.22 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 50955 Reading Level: 4.2 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 2.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Boxcar Children are going to summer camp and are looking forward to a week of new friends, exciting activities, and, most of all, the annual camp Olympics. As soon as camp begins, everything begins to go wrong for the Aldens--they lose their luggage, the camp flag disappears from Henry's cabin, and campers on the other team use one of Jessie's ideas to score points for themselves. Are some campers so desperate to win the Olympics that they are willing to cheat? |
Contributor Bio(s): Warner, Gertrude Chandler: - Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by the book's success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden children. |