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Camp Clodhopper
To get an edge on the Bunheads over the summer, the girls plan to attend the Claude Harper Camp for Performing Arts, but they soon discover that the camp does not measure up to its advertising. Even worse, the Bunheads are across the lake at some fancy camp. And they're calling the gang's camp Camp Clodhopper. This can only mean war.
117 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 4, 2017
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Jahnna N. Malcolm
100 books75 followersJahnna N. Malcolm is the pen name for husband-and-wife team Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner. Together they've written four musicals, two movies, three CD-ROM games, and nearly one hundred books, including the popular series The Jewel Kingdom. They met in the theater and were married on the stage using Marlowe's famous love letter from "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" as their wedding vows.
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June 8, 2023
Welcome back to round 2 of my camp book...thing. Here we have an entry in Bad News Ballet, a 10 book series by Jahnna N Malcom. You'll remember them as a pair of Ghosts of Fear Street writer that we covered before. Outside of some horror,, they've d0ne stuff like this., This series wasn't too long lasting, I imagine it must have just blended in with other girl book series of the time.
Still, it exists and it had a camp AND Halloween book so we'll have another chance with it possibly. Anyway, this book sees our group going to camp. The group is Mary Budnik, Zan, Katie McGee, Rocky, and Gwen. They're excited about going to this performing arts camp but find it's rather run down, especially compared to their neighbors at Camp Scoutsdale.
The main leader makes them do boot camp type stuff, and these snooty rivals they deal with they call the Bunheads go to Scoutsdale and mock them. Things aren't so great but can this sports competition with the rival camp turn things around?
This book is pretty standard but I enjoyed it well enough. There isn't a single protagonist here as everyone is about equal here. I don't know what the other books are like but Gwen gets maybe slightly more to do as she two journals with one ending the book, while the rest get one. Rocky gets the most development though as she deals with her lack of swimming skills.
The characters are standard arch types, with some having less to note.Mary seems to be the leader but not really, Katie exists, Rocky is tough, and Zan also exists with her getting maybe one notable moment while the rest get at least a bit more. She's black and they just say black instead of tiptoing around it which is good at least.
As for Gwen, She's "plump" so she likes to eat. Yeah it's that thing and it's really all she ever talks about. It's annoying, the worst part of this easily. The rest is just a bit bland at worst. We have a run down camp that they learn to like while dealing with rivals. Very standard and mostly doesn't do much new.
There is one shake up but it undoes that to do the more standard thing. It gets a stopping point but goes for 30 pages to do that, it's weird. It's not bad, just means there's not much as far as big fresh stuff. For the audience, it works fine.
There is a certain charm as there are some amusing moments. Typical yes, but some bits were amusing. There's some direct interactions with the characters. They're not the deepest for this one book, they worked well enough and were generally likable.
Sot of. There's a scene with the snooty rivals, who are fun when they do stuff, and our heroes are the ones to start shit by messing with them while those rivals are just a bit stuck up at worst. In the rest the rivals are worse but in that scene our heroes didn't seem much better.
There's not a ton for supporting players but we get some bond with nice nicely. There's a teacher who actually isn't good at ballet and that leads to some fun stuff. In general, it's a quick read that is fun. As cliche as it is, the nice moments work alright like the end.
It mostly flows as a series of little bits. There are a few odd/annoying bits, and it's not like I'm jumping to read more from the series. But for what I got, it was cute enough. Not a must read but not bad for what it is.
Next time, the randomizer lets us return to the Are you afraid of the Dark book series already, woo hoo. See ya then
Still, it exists and it had a camp AND Halloween book so we'll have another chance with it possibly. Anyway, this book sees our group going to camp. The group is Mary Budnik, Zan, Katie McGee, Rocky, and Gwen. They're excited about going to this performing arts camp but find it's rather run down, especially compared to their neighbors at Camp Scoutsdale.
The main leader makes them do boot camp type stuff, and these snooty rivals they deal with they call the Bunheads go to Scoutsdale and mock them. Things aren't so great but can this sports competition with the rival camp turn things around?
This book is pretty standard but I enjoyed it well enough. There isn't a single protagonist here as everyone is about equal here. I don't know what the other books are like but Gwen gets maybe slightly more to do as she two journals with one ending the book, while the rest get one. Rocky gets the most development though as she deals with her lack of swimming skills.
The characters are standard arch types, with some having less to note.Mary seems to be the leader but not really, Katie exists, Rocky is tough, and Zan also exists with her getting maybe one notable moment while the rest get at least a bit more. She's black and they just say black instead of tiptoing around it which is good at least.
As for Gwen, She's "plump" so she likes to eat. Yeah it's that thing and it's really all she ever talks about. It's annoying, the worst part of this easily. The rest is just a bit bland at worst. We have a run down camp that they learn to like while dealing with rivals. Very standard and mostly doesn't do much new.
There is one shake up but it undoes that to do the more standard thing. It gets a stopping point but goes for 30 pages to do that, it's weird. It's not bad, just means there's not much as far as big fresh stuff. For the audience, it works fine.
There is a certain charm as there are some amusing moments. Typical yes, but some bits were amusing. There's some direct interactions with the characters. They're not the deepest for this one book, they worked well enough and were generally likable.
Sot of. There's a scene with the snooty rivals, who are fun when they do stuff, and our heroes are the ones to start shit by messing with them while those rivals are just a bit stuck up at worst. In the rest the rivals are worse but in that scene our heroes didn't seem much better.
There's not a ton for supporting players but we get some bond with nice nicely. There's a teacher who actually isn't good at ballet and that leads to some fun stuff. In general, it's a quick read that is fun. As cliche as it is, the nice moments work alright like the end.
It mostly flows as a series of little bits. There are a few odd/annoying bits, and it's not like I'm jumping to read more from the series. But for what I got, it was cute enough. Not a must read but not bad for what it is.
Next time, the randomizer lets us return to the Are you afraid of the Dark book series already, woo hoo. See ya then
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