Camp Clodhopper

Bad News Ballet #8

by Jahnna N. Malcolm

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

Genres: Fiction

145 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1990

About the author

Jahnna 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.

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

These books are so adorable.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was published as part of the "Bad News Ballet" series in the U.S.

I read this book as a kid in the early 90s and it stuck with me for years. Rereading it again was a fun flashback for me. The story held up to my memory of it surprisingly well.

"Camp Clodhopper" celebrates the triumph of the underdogs at their rundown art camp over their privileged counterparts, the snooty, stuck-up Bunheads and their fancy summer camp across the lake. It harkens back to a time before cell phones and the internet, when you made friends at camp and sent each other letters (and made the occasional collect call) to keep in touch.