Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons on Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781538732267)

New York Times bestselling author Iris Krasnow reflects with humor and heart on her summer camp experiences and the lessons she and her fellow campers learned there that have stayed with them throughout their lives.

Iris Krasnow was 8 years old when she first attended sleep-away camp, building lasting friendships and essential life skills amid the towering pine trees and open skies of Wisconsin. Decades later, she returned to Camp Agawak as a staff member to help resurrect Agalog, the camp's defunct magazine that she wrote for as a child. There, she revisits the activities she loved as a young girl: singing songs around a campfire, swimming in a pristine lake, sleeping under the stars--experiences that continue to fill her with wisdom and perspective.

A nostalgic, inspiring memoir with a universal message on the importance of long-term friendship for campers and non-campers alike, Camp Girls weaves between past and present, filling the page in delicious detail with cabin pranks, canoe trips in rainstorms, and the joy of finding both your independence and your interdependence in nature alongside your peers. Through rich storytelling, Iris shares her own and other campers' adventures and the lessons from childhood that can shape fulfilling and successful adulthoods. Ultimately, Iris powerfully demonstrates that camp is more than a place or a collection of activities: it's where we learn what it means to be human and what it feels like to truly belong to a family--not of blood, but of history, loyalty, and tradition.

Author: Iris Krasnow
ISBN-10: 1538732262
ISBN-13: 9781538732267
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/10/2020
Booklist 03/01/2020 pg. 10
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2020