According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place – and she’s just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head – and her home state – and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens.
Zander does not fit in – or so she thinks. She has only one word for her fellow campers: crazy. In fact, the whole camp population exists somewhere between disaster and diagnosis. There’s her cabinmate Cassie, a self-described manic-depressive-bipolar-anorexic. Grover Cleveland (yes, like the president), a cute but confrontational boy who expects to be schizophrenic someday, odds being what they are. And Bek, a charmingly confounding pathological liar.
But amid group “share-apy” sessions and forbidden late-night outings, unlikely friendships form, and as the Michigan summer heats up, the four teens begin to reveal their tragic secrets. Zander finds herself inextricably drawn to Grover’s earnest charms, and she begins to wonder if she could be happy. But first she must come completely unraveled to have any hope of putting herself back together again.
Wow I fell in love with all of the characters in this book. Remarkable! I am amazed at how good it was. I’m very sad to have finished it. I feel like I’ll miss my new friends. Well done, Rebekah Crane, and thank you. Don’t feel bad about the nasty reviewers. It happens to all really good authors.
Brilliant First off, I am not a young adult. I am over fifty.I truly enjoyed this book. What a wonderful, terrifying story.Life is difficult. Choices aren’t always easy.We must learn to accept and forgive. And love. Always love.
Snuggle In Your Sleeping Bag And Start Up the Fire, You’ll Want to Camp Out Instead of Putting This One Down. This review (as always) does NOT contain spoilers, except for some minor characterization, if you count that.Â