May 27, 2025 by Aladdin
E ARC provided by Edelweiss Plus
Pina Ahmadi and her best friend, Jo Manalo, are excited about spending the summer at Camp Clear Skies in Wisconsin, which has just reopened after being closed for twenty years. Pina, who suffers from anxiety and often hides behind Jo, is trying hard to turn herself into Pina 2.0 during the summer away from her close knit Iranian American family. Things are a half bubble off at the camp, and there are rumors about a missing camper. Counselor George and his mean girl sister Bethany are odd, but Pina and Jo, who is nonbinary, meet Eddy and Arish, who are interested in finding out why the camp is so creepy. When the group sneaks out at night, they have a bizarre shared dream that makes them want to find out more about the history of the camp. George knows about The Glade, and tells them that if campers sleep there, it their dreams become more intense and dangerous, so of course they sneak out of their cabins and try to have more dreams. Jo gets sucked further into The Glade because she is struggling with a troubled home life and caretakers who won't accept their gender identity, and is worries about moving away from Pina so that she can live with her uncle, who has gotten a job in Detroit. Breaking into the cabin of Ms. Angela, the camp owner, the group finds out more about the sordid history of the camp, and the identity of the missing camper. Will this be enough to break the spell of The Glade and save Jo?
Summer camps in books certainly have their creepy moments, and this is a good choice for readers who enjoyed Berk and Mitchell's Camp Murderface, Murphy's Camp Sylvania, or Burch's Camp Twisted Pine.
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