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Overview

"I died one summer, or I almost did. Part of me did. I don't say that to be dramatic, only because it's true."

For the past nine years, Helena Waite has been returning to summer camp at Southpoint. Every year the camp and its familiar routines, landmarks, and people have welcomed her back like a long-lost family member. But this year she is returning not as a camper, but as a counselor, while her best friend, Katie Bell remains behind. All too quickly, Helena discovers that the innocent world of campfires, singalongs, and field days have been pushed aside for late night pranks on the boys' camp, skinny dipping in the lake, and stolen kisses in the hayloft. As she struggles to define herself in this new world, Helena begins to lose sight of what made camp special and the friendships that have sustained her for so many years. And when Ransome, her longtime crush, becomes a romantic reality, life gets even more confusing.

Told with honesty and heart, Kathryn Williams' second novel tackles the timeless theme of growing up, set at a camp where innocence is created and lost.

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Helena is struggling to figure out where she fits. At seventeen, she is returning to her beloved Camp Southpoint. For eight summers, she has been a camper, but this year she goes back as a counselor. Her best friend, Katie Bell, is still sixteen and is forced to return as a camper. Helena is uneasy about how their friendship will survive. When Helena is invited by other counselors to sneak off after the campers are asleep, they rendezvous with counselors from the adjacent boys' camp—Camp Brownstone. Helena has had a longtime crush on Ransome, one of the Brownstone counselors, and when he begins to flirt with her, she is thrilled. As Helena and Ransome grow closer, she is eager to share the news with Katie; however Katie's tepid reaction causes Helena to think that perhaps she has matured while Katie has not. This book just does not quite work. Helena's voice is uneven—coming across at times more like a middle schooler than someone about to enter her senior year in high school. The near-catastrophic event at the end seems contrived and too neatly solves the conundrum of Helena and Katie's friendship, while Ransome—about whom Helena has spent pages daydreaming—just disappears from the scene with weak explanations for his departure. Every Soul a Star (Little, Brown, 2008/VOYA April 2008) by Wendy Mass is a much better story of teens trying to find their place in the world. Reviewer: Debbie Wenk
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Helena loved summertime. It was wonderful to have a break from school, but the thing that made summer extra special to her was Southpoint. Southpoint was a summer camp she had attended every summer break as a camper; but now, this year, she was going as a counselor. She felt honored and she knew it was going to be a great summer. The only bad thing was that her best friend Katie Bell, who was sixteen, was still too young to be a counselor. Helena knew that this summer was going to be different and that she would have freedoms as a counselor that she never had as a camper. She loved having more freedom, making new friends, and being able to be around a male counselor at the neighboring boy's camp, that she had had a crush on for a couple of years. She began to hang out at night, drink, fool around, and do things she had never done before. She thought she was ready for all these things. What she did not suspect was that her decisions were hurting her friendship with Katie Bell, put her at odds with another friend, and would almost cost her life. The Lost Summer is a coming-of-age-story that focuses on the truth of what love is, true endearing friendship, and the loss of innocence. Reviewer: Laura J. Brown

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781423101284
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 7/14/2009
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 1,179,851
  • Age range: 13 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 890L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.74 (w) x 8.54 (h) x 0.97 (d)
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  • Posted November 12, 2009

    Loved This Tale!

    Having worked in an all-girls-school, I found this novel to be palpablly life-like. The internal dialogue is sharply accurate in it's blatant honesty while capturing the conflicting priorities that typify the age of the characters. A perceptive, entertaining and nimble read.

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  • Posted September 19, 2009

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    Reviewed by Ashley B for TeensReadToo.com

    Helena Waite is finally a counselor at Southpoint, a summer camp for girls. She's been going to camp for years, and it is all she looks forward to. The bad part is, Katie Bell, her best friend, missed the counselor age requirement by a few months, and is therefore stuck as a camper for another year.

    Katie Bell and Helena swear camp will be the same. But Helena thinks it will be different. And it is. Helena leaves Katie Bell behind for her counselor friends, and Ransome, her long-time crush who has become a reality.

    I was a little disappointed in THE LOST SUMMER. The ending was a complete surprise that I didn't see coming, which is always a good thing, but a lot of the time I found myself quite annoyed by Helena, what with her treating her best friend the way she did.

    With me knowing so much about camp, it made me curious, because most of the time it seemed as though there was nobody watching the campers. I really thought this book was going to be different, but overall it's an entertaining read.

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