Camp

For most girls, sleepaway camp is great fun. But for Amy Becker, its a nightmare. Amy, whose home life is in turmoil, is sent to Camp Takawanda for Girls for the first time as a teenager.

Although Amy despises spending summers at home with her German-immigrant mother, who is unduly harsh with Amys autistic younger brother, Amy is less than thrilled about going away to camp. And her reluctance about camp is only the beginning.

At Takawanda Amy finds herself subjected to a humiliating initiation and also to relentless bullying by Rory, the ringleader of the senior campers.As Amy struggles to stop the mean girls from tormenting her, she becomes more confident.

But then her cousin reveals dark secrets about Amys mothers past, setting in motion a tragic event that changes Amy and her family forever.Winner of the Forward National Literature Award and a book-of-the-month pick by the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (NY), Camp is an acutely sensitive and compelling novel that will resonate with a wide readership.