Why a Booktrail?
2000s and flashbacks: A group of girls go kayaking to an island. Not all of them return
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
What you need to know before your trail
A group of young girls descend on a sleepaway camp where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and nervous energy, they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island. But before the night is over, they find themselves stranded, with no adults to help them survive or guide them home.
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore traces these five girls through and beyond this fateful trip.
Travel Guide
Travel to the Pacific North West BookTrail Style to Camp Forevermore
The camp and Lumpen Island where the girls spend their weekend is fictional but it’s clearly in the Pacific Northwest.
Foevermore
The name meant like its religious and pseudo-Native American competitors, to project ancient knowledge. Nine-to-eleven year old girls would leave home fretful and finicky and return capable, knowledgeable outdoors woman, remade in the wholesomeness of woods and sisterhood, The Best of its kind” crowed the brochure.
There’s a sense that the girls want to be like the girl adventurers and detectives from the novels they read and the TV shows they watch. They are particularly looking for ward to kayaking to a remote island on their own and camping over night. This place is remote, wild, the place of adventures only experience in novels until now., A chance to show their parents and their classmates that they can do this. A rite of passage.
The landscape sounds beautiful and the sense of adventure is palpable.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
Destination: Pacific Northwest ” Lumpen Island” Author/guide: Kim Fu Departure Time: 2000s with flashbacks
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