num_pages: 304
description: Ah summer camp. Its an experience we remember vividly; a time of food fights and cabin raids first kisses and bittersweet heartbreaks endless days of sun and fun away from parents. But theres one person who has a take on camp unlike anyone else: the camp nurse.Camp Nurse reveals what its like to be the person kids turn to for help comfort and advice. Throughout nurse Tilda Shalofs six summers at camp kids troop through the infirmary with a variety of ordinaryas well as some extraordinarycomplaints questions and ailments including the symptom endemic to every summer camp: homesickness. Along the way she discovers its often the emotional boo-boos that need more attention than the bug bites poison ivy and scrapes and scratches that come with the territory.Camp Nurse is funny entertaining insightful and above all heartwarming. Its filled with all the twinges of nostalgia one expects to get when remembering long-ago summers at camp.Praise for Tilda Shalofs other books: A cracking good read.  Quill &amp; Quire The best-seller no one can put down.  Montreal Gazette
language: English
title: Camp Nurse: My Adventures at Summer Camp
publisher: Kaplan Publishing