Follow the Trail: A Young Person's Guide to the Great Outdoors by Jessica Loy, Henry Holt and Company, LLC, New York, 2003
A good and fairly comprehensive beginners guide to outdoor camping and hiking, including what gear and food you need to bring, how to set up a camp, find your way, keep safe, and how to have fun in the outdoors. It also has a resource guide to magazines, hiking organizations like the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Sierra Club, and tour organizers.
Let's Go Camping by Suzanne Slade, Power Kids Press, Rosen Publishing Company New York, NY 2007
An elementary introduction to what a child might see and do while tent camping, with more emphasis on the toasted marshmallows and s'mores than the technical details.
Cam Jansen: The Summer Camp Mysteries by David A. Adler, illustrated by Joy Allen, Puffin Books, Penguin Young Readers Group, New York, NY, 2007
Cam Jansen, the heroine of a series of many other mystery books for children, and her best friends are spending three weeks at a summer camp, Camp Eagle Lake, where they play sports, do crafts, and solve three mysteries-the First Day of Camp Mystery -It's a Raid! - The Basketball Mystery.
Ernestine and Amanda: Summer Camp Ready or Not! bySandra Belton, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, New York,Ny, 1997
Ernestine and Amanda, two African-American girls growing up in the 1950s, do not particularly like each other but they go away to different summer camps where they make discoveries about what they can expect from themselves, other people, and each other.
Letters From Camp by Kate Klise, illustrated by M. Sarah Klise, Avon Books, New York, 1999
Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle in letters home how they come to suspect the intentions of the singing family running the camp, in this mystery about a summer camp run amok.
Camping in the Temple of the Sun by Deborah Gould, Illustrated by Diane Paterson, Bradbury Press, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, NY 1992
A family's first camping trip, using a new tent they call the Temple of the Sun, is full of fun and adventure despite a series of mishaps and some rain.
Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems by Kristine O'Connell George, illustrated by Kate Kiesler, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, NY, 2001
Poems and pictures of the many different things that can happen on a camping trip from puting up the tent to pulling up stakes.
Marvin of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, NY, 1997
A true story about a ten year old Jewish boy who is sent to a Minnesota logging camp by his parents in the hope he will avoid catching the influenza epidemic of 1918, and meets a French-Canadian lumberjack there who becomes a special friend.
A Day at Damp Camp by George Ella Lyon, pictures by Peter Catalanotto, Orchard Books, New York, 1996
In this story in rhyme and nested pictures, one friend helps another through the pitfalls and pratfalls of a day at summer camp.
Tacky goes to Camp by Helen Lester, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger, Houghton Mifflin Books For Children, Boston, MA 2009
Tacky the penguin and his friends go to Camp Whoopihaha where they scare each other by telling ghost stories around the campfire, never expecting that one of the frightening stories will come true.
Witch Twins at Camp Bliss by Adele Griffin, Hyperion Books For Children, New York, NY 2002
When the ten-year-old witch twins head for summer camp, Claire is excited and Luna is reluctant, but things do not turn out quite the way either of them expects.
Skunk Scout by Laurence Yep, Hyperion Books for Children, New York, NY 2003
Teddy reluctantly goes camping with his little brother Bobby and Uncle Curtis, where as they hike in the woods they encounter a black creature with a white stripe, and have other educational adventures.
Acorn Magic by by Maggie Stern, pictures by Donna Ruff, Greenwillow Books, New York, NY 1998
Mrs. Potter takes Simon camping to look for birds, but, even though he takes his magic acorn along on the trip, it does not turn out the way he expected.
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