Nerd Camp | TheBookSeekers

Nerd Camp


Nerd Camp

No. of pages 272

Reviews
Great for age 8-13 years
Pack your sleeping bag, grab your calculator, and celebrate geekdom with this humorous and empowering middle grade novel by the acclaimed author of Standing for Socks. Nerd Camp, here we come!

Ten-year-old Gabe has just been accepted to the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment. That means he'll be spending six weeks at sleepaway camp, writing poetry and perfecting logic proofs. S.C.G.E. has been a summer home to some legendary middle-school smarty-pants (and future Jeopardy! contestants), but it has a reputation for being, well, a Nerd Camp. S.C.G.E = Smart Camp for Geeks and Eggheads.
But is Gabe really a geek? He's never thought about it much-but that was before he met Zack, his hip, LA-cool, soon-to-be stepbrother. Gabe worries that Zack will see him only as a nerd, until a wild summer at camp-complete with a midnight canoe ride to "Dead Man's Island"-helps Gabe realize that he and Zack have the foundations for a real friendship.
This clever, fun read from Elissa Brent Weissman is full of great minor characters (like a bunkmate who solves math problems in his sleep) and silly subplots (like the geekiest lice outbreak ever). Adjust your head-gear, pack your camp bag, and get ready to geek out!

 

This book is part of a book series called Nerd Camp .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Simon & Schuster .

Elissa Brent Weissman is the author of The Short Seller , Nerd Camp , and Standing for Socks as well as The Trouble with Mark Hopper . She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit her at EBWeissman. com.

This book is in the following series:

Nerd Camp

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Cybils Award
This book was recognised in the Fiction - Middle Grade category by the Cybils Award. The Cybils Awards is a group of readers passionate about seeking out and recognizing books that represent diversity, inclusion, and appropriate representation for children and teens. To accomplish that goal, the Cybils Awards works to recognize books written for children and young adults that combine both the highest literary merit and popular appeal.

Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 3-5 category by the Sunshine State Young Reader's Award.

No reviews yet