Abby's Camp Days Series

Camp Expert CreateSpace Amazon.com Kindle edition

Most kids feel nervous when they go off to summer camp by themselves for the first time. Not Abby Riley. At the age of nine, she’s already a church camp expert, having tagged along every summer with her pastor father, who runs the week for junior-high-aged kids. This is the summer Abby has been waiting for, the summer she finally gets to be a “real” camper at elementary camp instead of just her dad’s guest. But when Abby gets to camp, she discovers that life as an elementary camper is nothing like hanging out at camp as a dean’s kid. Elementary camp is full of rules, rules, and more rules! She has to follow a strict schedule, swim only in the shallow, roped-off area, and share a tiny cabin with a bunch of strangers. Worst of all, the counselors and campers at elementary camp are all new faces—none of the camp friends she already knows. She can’t even complain to her best friend Carin about camp because Carin is in love with both camp and their cute, seventeen-year-old counselor. What Abby really wants to do, for the first time in her camp life, is pack her suitcase and go home, but she decides that she needs to stay and change things at this strange elementary camp. Will Abby change camp, or will camp change her?

Publication Date: Apr 15 2008 ISBN/EAN13: 1419691511 / 9781419691515 Page Count: 226 Binding Type: US Trade Paper Trim Size: 6" x 9"

Favorite Camper CreateSpace Amazon.com Kindle edition

Abby Riley has always been shy, quiet, sensitive, and what her father calls “compassionate.” What she’d rather be is more like her friends—outgoing like Carin, funny like Rachel, or artistic like Lindsay. That’s just what she vows on her way to Camp Spirit—that she’ll be cool and fun and that she won’t shed a single tear all week. But then Abby gets to camp, and her determination to change gets swallowed up by the excitement of the week when her second summer as a camper turns out to be a year of firsts…first crush (on her counselor, of course!), first grasshead craft project, first encounter with camp bullies, first use of the dean’s underwear in a skit. How can Abby make sense of all these firsts and become the new person she wants to be when the camp buddy who helped her last year is far away in heaven?

Publication Date: Mar 05 2009 ISBN/EAN13: 1439227500 / 9781439227503 Page Count: 226 Binding Type: US Trade Paper Trim Size: 6" x 9"

Cabin Secrets CreateSpace Amazon.com Kindle edition

Abby has a plan, and her best friend Carin has a plan. Abby's plan is to finally be in a cabin with her three best camp friends: Car, Lindsay, and Rachel. Carin's plan is that the campers learn everything they can about boys--after all, they will soon be in sixth grade where there are . . . dances! Abby can deal with the boy stuff as long as her cabin-request plan works out, but somebody's family reuinion in Florida threatens to mess up not only her cabin plan but one of her favorite camper/counselor relationships. Getting flirting lessons from lifeguard Julie and deciding which boy camper she thinks is the cutest turns out to be not as bad as she thought, but when someone she trusts blabs her boy-related secret, Abby is left wondering if elementary campers really need to learn about boys yet.

Publication Date: Dec 14 2009 ISBN/EAN13: 1439269564 / 9781439269565 Page Count: 238 Binding Type: US Trade Paper Trim Size: 6" x 9"

Lost Swimmer Drill CreateSpace Amazon.com Kindle edition

Abby and her friends have graduated to junior high camp! They're trading in canteen cards for real money, Nuke 'em for volleyball, and day groups for interest groups. They'll finally get to have a camp dance and the much anticipated campers vs. counselors water balloon fight--plus new experiences that come with being an almost-teenager, like shaving in the camp shower and sharing secrets about all the personal changes that come in junior high. But the absolute best thing about junior high camp is that Abby's dad is one of the deans--which means her mom is in charge of cabin assignments, so she is sure to be in a cabin with her three best friends Carin, Lindsay, and Rachel. Nothing could mess up this awesome week of camp. . . . Except there IS something messing it up. Something big. Something scary involving the health of a family member. Something that may change Abby's life. Will camp and her friends help her get through her family's crisis? Or will the problems at home put a damper on the camp fun?

Publication Date: Jun 20 2011 ISBN/EAN13: 1461087171 / 9781461087175 Page Count: 248 Binding Type: US Trade Paper Trim Size: 6" x 9"

Buddy Check CreateSpace Amazon.com Kindle edition

Camp has always been Kate's favorite place, a place where she's popular, has tons of friends, and finds that being a Christian is thought of as cool-a sharp contrast to the life she leads at home as a straight-A student who avoids the parties and sporting events where the 'cool kids' hang out. The summer between high school and college promises to be the best yet: her campers are sweethearts; she has plenty of time to spend with her best friend, boy-magnet Julie; the guy she's had a crush on since junior high finally notices her; and her relationship with God is stronger than ever. Everything is going great...until things at camp take some unexpected turns. Kate's camp romance suddenly seems more interested in her nasty co-counselor, two of her best friends are fighting, and worst of all the bossy camp administrators have forced camp's beloved manager-and Kate's best friends on the camp staff-to resign. Then, while she is already struggling to understand God's will where camp is concerned, her favorite camper confides in Kate that her sister has a terminal illness. Now, the young counselor is determined to find the perfect boyfriend, solve all of camp's problems, and talk God into changing His dismal plans for her camper-all in one summer.

Publication Date: Aug 19 2011 ISBN/EAN13: 1452888035 / 9781452888033 Page Count: 456 Binding Type: US Trade Paper Trim Size: 6" x 9"