Lizzie B. Hayes and the Great Camp Caper by Kathryn P Carter

Lizzie B. Hayes and the Great Camp Caper by Kathryn P Carter

Lizzie B. Hayes and the Great Camp Caper, is a middle grade children's fiction chapter book. It is the second book in the to the popular Lizzie B. Hayes series. Through historical fiction, KP Carter shares childhood coming of age stories about life in the 1960's.

After the 1967 Newark rebellion, Lizzie's Newark neighborhood has changed. Still surrounded by her loving grandparents, Cousins Shu Shu and Mookie, the precocious, accident prone ten-year-old Lizzie continues to yearn for her divorced parents to be re-united. Two years later, Lizzie gets ready to leave her beloved neighborhood again during the summer of 1969. Lizzie's bad luck streak has ended, or so she thinks. Thanks to her mother's tenacity and salesmanship, Lizzie wins a Girl Scout Cookie contest. The prize is an all-expense paid two-week camp trip. For the first time, Lizzie must learn to care for herself without the protection of her loving family and her Girl Scout troop leader.

While waiting to board the bus to Camp Chicktawanga, Lizzie encounters one of the grouchiest girls she has ever met. From the moment Lizzie encounters the sour-lemon sucking face Coco, she decides to stay out of her way. Unfortunately, Lizzie and Coco end up sharing a cabin. Trouble ensues the moment Lizzie, Coco, and the other two cabin mates head up the dusty trail to the cabin. Coco is unlike anyone Lizzie has ever encountered; plain old mean. When the troop leader tells Lizzie and Coco to buddy up for the overnight camping hike, Lizzie is undone. To make matters worse, Lizzie and Coco become separated from the rest of the campers and may have to spend the night in the woods alone. Will Lizzie and Coco work together to survive in the wilderness? What is the real reason Coco bullies everyone - especially Lizzie?

Lizzie B. Hayes and the Great Camp Caper addresses such difficult topics as bullying, aggression, and inappropriate teasing. Similar to Jacqueline Woodson's Each Kindness and Trudy Ludwig's Just Kidding, young readers learn valuable lessons about these behaviors and how to manage their own interactions.

Carter, Kathryn P.: - Kathryn P. Carter (KP), #theliteracywhisperer, is a literacy advocate, educator, author, and speaker. KP holds a BA in Elementary Education from Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC, and a MEd from Kutztown State University, Kutztown, PA. Throughout her 35-year career in education, KP became a certified Reading Specialist, Supervisor, and School Administrator. Initially, KP served as a per-diem substitute teacher. She went on to become a successful junior high and elementary school teacher, supervisor, and administrator in several New Jersey public school districts including Montclair, Newark, and Orange. Summers were spent as an Adjunct Professor of Reading at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Lead Teacher for the Title I program in the Montclair Public Schools, and Reading Enrichment Teacher in the Project Oasis Montclair summer basketball program. KP continues to share her knowledge and skills through involvement with civic and religious organizations. After her retirement from the Orange Public Schools as Director of Language Arts and Testing, KP began the second chapter in her life. She writes and publishes children's books, presents engaging author visits, and has developed a research based interactive literacy workshop series - 10 Steps to Reading Success Progressive Parents Promoting Literacy through her business KP Carter Writes LLC. Summertime with Lizzie B. Hayes is KP's first middle grade book in the Lizzie B. Hayes series. Through the innocent eyes of a child, readers are introduced to a precocious accident prone eight-year old, three generations of her colorful family and, the summer of 1967 in Newark, NJ - the summer of the 1967 rebellion. KP uses fiction to teach about this significant time period and how children process the ups and downs of life. The second book in the series, Lizzie B. Hayes, and the Great Camp Caper, picks up two years later. This time, Lizzie is away for two-weeks at Girl Scout camp. For the first time, she must learn to take care of herself without the supervision of adult family members and manage to deal with a bully in her cabin. Readers learn valuable lessons about such difficult topics as bullying, aggression and, inappropriate teasing and how to manage their own interactions. KP's books are sprinkled with childhood memories.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780578468778
ISBN 10	0578468778
Title	Lizzie B. Hayes and the Great Camp Caper
Author	Kathryn P Carter
Series	Lizzie B Hayes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kp Carter Writes LLC
Year published	2019-03-07
Number of pages	116
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.