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"For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it could be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zack, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds".
Gabe is excited to meet his divorced dad's future stepson Zack, but when he finds out that Zack hates reading, he worries that he'll will think Gabe's too much of a nerd, since he and his friends LOVE reading. Zack is jealous of Gabe, since Zack's parents have never let him got to sleepaway camp, but Gabe doesn't tell him it's a camp for gifted kids. So Gabe heads off to camp, and we get really fun descriptions of Gabe and his bunkmates and their interests and summer studies: logic, poetry, rocketry, along with the usual; color wars, bonfires, even lice (but all with a twist--the camp's uber-cool camper has been breeding the lice for research). Gabe writes to Zack, and he makes a chart of the fun he has, but he has a column of the details he must omit if he wants to impress Zack (e.g.: "A celebrity came to camp, and I got a picture with him." Omitted detail: It was Alex Trebek, of Jeopardy! fame.) Of course, Gabe eventually realizes that he can be honest with Zack, and Zack thinks lots of the things are still cool.
BTW: Zack turns out to be a terrible speller, and Gabe is embarrassed about that--hides the postcard--doesn't want his friends to find out. Not sure if that was necessary (making Zack weaker to help Gabe feels stronger?); never really dealt with--do his parents know?
The title will sell itself to all the nerds out there--but they may want to hide the cover! The author has taught at Johns Hopkins' Center for Talented Youth, so she knows whereof she speaks.
Gabe is excited to meet his divorced dad's future stepson Zack, but when he finds out that Zack hates reading, he worries that he'll will think Gabe's too much of a nerd, since he and his friends LOVE reading. Zack is jealous of Gabe, since Zack's parents have never let him got to sleepaway camp, but Gabe doesn't tell him it's a camp for gifted kids. So Gabe heads off to camp, and we get really fun descriptions of Gabe and his bunkmates and their interests and summer studies: logic, poetry, rocketry, along with the usual; color wars, bonfires, even lice (but all with a twist--the camp's uber-cool camper has been breeding the lice for research). Gabe writes to Zack, and he makes a chart of the fun he has, but he has a column of the details he must omit if he wants to impress Zack (e.g.: "A celebrity came to camp, and I got a picture with him." Omitted detail: It was Alex Trebek, of Jeopardy! fame.) Of course, Gabe eventually realizes that he can be honest with Zack, and Zack thinks lots of the things are still cool.
BTW: Zack turns out to be a terrible speller, and Gabe is embarrassed about that--hides the postcard--doesn't want his friends to find out. Not sure if that was necessary (making Zack weaker to help Gabe feels stronger?); never really dealt with--do his parents know?
The title will sell itself to all the nerds out there--but they may want to hide the cover! The author has taught at Johns Hopkins' Center for Talented Youth, so she knows whereof she speaks.