Sleepaway Girls
By Jen Calonita
(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, 9780316017176, 304pp.)
Publication Date: May 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: Girls & Women, Love & Romance, Social Issues - Adolescence
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When Sam's best friend gets her first boyfriend, she's not ready to spend the summer listening to the two of them call each other "pookie." Sick of being a third wheel, Sam applies to be a counselor-in-training at Whispering Pines camp in the New York Catskills. But what she doesn't realize is that it's not going to be all Kumbaya sing-alongs and gooey s'mores. If Ashley, the alpha queen of Whispering Pines, doesn't ruin Sam's summer, then her raging crush on the surfer-blond and flirtatious Hunter just might. At least she has playful Cole, who's always teasing her, but is oh-so-comfortable to hang out with, and the singular gang of girls that become fast friends with Sam-they call themselves the Sleepaway Girls.
Jen Calonita was never officially a sleepaway girl, but she was a camp counselor near her home on New York's Long Island. She had the rather uncool position of computer class counselor (It was the last position open and she really wanted to work there!), but she swears it was worth taking the lame title just to be among the dreamy boy counselors at her camp. Over the past eight years, as a Senior Editor at Teen People and a journalist for Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, and Marie Claire, Jen Calonita has interviewed everyone from Zac Effron to Justin Timberlake
Jen's fifth Secrets novel, Broadway Lights, pubs in March 2010, and second standalone novel, Reality Check, about teen reality show stars, will pub May 2010.
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