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Summer Camp: Sweet or Scary

Summer Camps can be filled with friendship bracelets, s'mores and cheesy camp songs... but they can also be filled with secrets, fears, and monsters. Which camps will you pick?

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  • Scoutmaster Tim leads a boys troop into the wilderness for a camping trip--a yearly tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite--shockingly thin, pale, and voraciously…
    Book, 2016New York : Gallery Books, 2016. — Cutter
  • Growing up, Jessie and Hillary lived for Camp Chickawah summers. When Jessie, now Camp Director, learns that the camp will be sold, she decides to plan one last hurrah, inviting past campers—to a nostalgic “adult summer camp” before closing for…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024Books on Tape, 2024
  • After her mysterious role in a family tragedy, Thea has been exiled to a boarding school. With its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and friendships, the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a far remove from the free-roaming,…
    Book, 2013New York : Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013. — Discla
  • After sitcom star Willow tweeted herself into infamy, her agent shipped her off to Camp Castaway. She's relieved to find that her fellow campers seem okay. The peaceful vibe is shattered when a woman pops out from Willow's wardrobe. Soon after, one…
    eBook, 2024Penguin Publishing Group, 2024
  • Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood, where they were the Clover Girls—inseparable—until the last summer. Now years later, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens. Emily sends the girls a letter imploring…
    eAudiobook, 2021HarlequinAudio, 2021
  • Teddy's band has just broken up. So when he's offered a gig at a Wild Arts Summer Camp he takes it. Gretchen has a mid-life crisis. Her job as the camp dance teacher will allow her to drop out of society for a while. They clash when he mistakes her…
    Book, 2025New York ; Boston : Forever, 2025. — Holida
  • When Rowan takes a trip to a cabin, she finds herself drawn into the story of socialite-turned-feminist-crusader, Eddie Calloway, who vanished in 1975. In an abandoned handbook she finds, she learns more about Eddie. As she delves deeper, we meet…
    Book, 2023[New York] : Dutton, [2023] — Brown
  • Charity is playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake where guests pay to be scared in recreated scenes from a classic slasher film, The Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. But, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. When one ends up dead, Charity's role…
    eAudiobook, 2023Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023
  • When Garland's husband surprised her with divorce papers, she decides she's clearly never meant to love again. When friends invite her to Camp Carl Cove, she jumps at the opportunity to get away. It's the escape she's dreamt of, until she runs into…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — Morris
  • Wayward teens counselor isn't how Jayden planned to spend summer. The Piney Wood Academy owners trust in her tough-love approach. So does drill instructor Elijah, whose hardened hide conceals a heart broken one too many times. Jayden is making it…
    Book, 2020Seattle : Montlake, 2020. — Brown
  • Students Russ and Aurora cross paths at an end of year party which results in them having a passionate one-night stand. On the first day of summer camp, they're surprised to find out they're both counselors. Russ knows breaking the strict "no staff…
    eBook, 2023Atria Books, 2023
  • Twenty years ago, Amanda Holmes was found bludgeoned at the MacAllister family's Camp Macaw. No one was ever charged with the crime. Now, after their parents' deaths, the siblings return to camp to read the will. The will stipulates that until they…
    Book, 2019Seattle, WA : Lake Union Publishing, [2019] — MacKen
  • Amanda has an envious life. But her life isn't as perfect as it seems. She's been hiding a dark secret that goes back to Camp Catalpa. Two fellow campers were there too. None of them has ever spoken about it. Until Amanda slips and the truth…
    eAudiobook, 2022HarperCollins, 2022
  • Nearly thirty years ago, June bought Camp Holly Springs. But now, she's in danger of losing it. June's niece, Daphne, met her two best friends, Lanier and Mary, at camp. They've helped each other through hard things, and are inseparable even in…
    Book, 2023New York : Gallery Books, [2023] — Harvey
  • Max and Annie have left London with their son to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. Eager for a dry run ahead of their opening, they invite old university friends and their families for a long-needed reunion. But the festivities soon…
    eAudiobook, 2024Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024
  • After a traumatic school year, camp counselor Goldie Easton is excited to reunite with her two best friends at an elite summer camp, but when a local boy is found dead on the grounds, all three must reveal a dark secret to find the murderer.
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, 2022. — YA F Goo
  • Most people’s births aren’t immortalized in a police report—but Olivia was born during the infamous Camp Lost Lake murders. Seventeen years later, Olivia’s life looks perfect . . . until she discovers the man she calls dad is not her biological…
    eBook, 2024Penguin Young Readers Group, 2024
  • Clara's life is spiraling: she's single, her dream job is a nightmare, and she needs a vacation. The last problem she can fix—she'll join old friends at Pine Lake Camp. With news of it being sold, the first night turns into reminiscing and a…
    eAudiobook, 2024Hachette Audio, 2024
  • Two Truths and a Lie. They played it all the time at Camp Nightingale. That ended when Emma watched the other girls sneak out of the cabin. The last anyone saw of them. Now in the art scene, Emma's paintings catch the attention of the camp owner.…
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Dutton, [2018] — Sager
  • When Mars's twin, Caroline, dies under horrific circumstances, he wants to learn all he can about her death. With his grief still fresh, he insists on attending Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy in her place where he seeks out her old friends: the…
    eAudiobook, 2022Scholastic Inc., 2022