Two of Miller’s fun and quirky characters from her first graphic novel, Click, make a reappearance in this swift summer story along with a great cast of diverse campers and counselors. As our main characters discover their very different personalities, readers discover what it truly means to be a friend. After arriving for their sleepaway adventure, Olive makes fast friends with their bunk mates while Willow is shy and ready to make camp about just the two of them. What did you like about the book? Summer camp is a time for friends and fun, but Willow and Olive end up having almost two weeks of feuding and fuming instead. Genre: Realistic fiction (Graphic Novel format) Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3 Camp – written and illustrated by Kayla Miller, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9781328530813, 2019
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