Runaway Summer
Stuck at Camp Raukawee for the summer, Ellie and her best friend Seb hatch a daring plan to escape the endless chaos of bratty kids and overbearing supervisors. Tired of her impossible cabin of ten-year-old girls (especially the terror Tasha), and Seb’s relative freedom as a lifeguard, they decide there’s only one way to get the summer they actually want: make a break for it and head for New York.
“When the hand goes up...”“The mouth goes shut!” Outside the dining hall, one hundred small voices echoed across the group, with all the expected enthusiasm of kids who'd been told it was not only allowed, but encouraged, for them to yell this at the top of their voices.
Enclosed on all sides by miles of dense forest, a group of eight-to-ten year olds like those here were not about to pass up any opportunity to be loud and get away with it, which was probably one of the reasons camp held so much appeal for them.
In theory, the routine seemed like a genius way to get such a large group of campers falling quiet upon command; give them an excuse to shout for a moment, and maybe they'd get it out of their system.
