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Sum­mer Camp Vibes

Take a trip down nos­tal­gia lane and immerse your­self in sto­ries that evoke ~sum­mer camp vibes~ and dig into the Jew­ish camp experience. 

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Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons in Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty
Iris Krasnow
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Fiction
On Blackberry Hill
Rachel Mann
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Nonfiction
The New Queer Conscience
Adam Eli
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The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
Sandra Fox
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Fiction
The Sunlit Night
Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
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Fiction
Florence Adler Swims Forever
Rachel Beanland
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Fiction
The Summer Demands
Deborah Shapiro
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What I Like About You
Marisa Kanter
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Fiction
The Hotel Neversink
Adam O'Fallon Price
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The Borscht Belt
Marisa Scheinfeld
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Becoming Eve
Abby Stein
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Costalegre
Courtney Maum
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The Liar
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen; Sondra Silverston, trans.
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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: A Letter from Camp
Allan Sherman, Lou Busch, Jack E. Davis (Illus.)
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Camp Camp
Roger Bennett and Jules Shell; Ivan Reitma, fwd.
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Hebrew Infusion
Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan B. Krasner, Sharon Avni
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