Grace Matthews

## Grace

**Grace Matthews** is one of the main characters in the *Summer Camp Secrets* series.

## Biography

Grace lives in Montvale, New Jersey with her mum and dad. Her best friend at home is Emily, who has moved away and attends a different school. She is close to Brynn at Camp Lakeview since they both share their love of drama and acting.

In the third book, her secret is that she has failed reading at school and has to make up for it by reading during the summer.

## Personality

Grace is described as 'a lively girl whose everyone's friend'. Despite showing distaste towards books at first, in the fifth book she enjoys reading and participates in a book club among her bunkmates.

## Relationships

* Mrs Matthews, Grace's mother.
* Mr Matthews, Grace's father.
* Emily, Grace's best friend at home.
* Brynn Collins, Grace's friend at camp.
* Devon, a boy who Grace meets and develops a crush on in *Best Friends?*
* Gaby Parsons, a girl who befriends Grace in *Best Friends?* only to bounce between treating her nicely and bullying her.

## Books

### Best Friends?

   Grace writes a letter to her best friend at home, Emily, only to stop to join Brynn in her yoga. While walking to the mess hall for dinner, Grace starts to think she's the only one without a best friend at camp; the next day in drama, she meets Gaby and decides to partner with her for the upcoming auditions. Before long, Gaby learns of Grace's issues and uses them against her, to the point of pushing her away when Grace visits during siesta. Julie informs Grace that her parents have forbidden her to attend the camp field trip unless she reads 'The Call of the Wild'. Her bunkmates help her prepare for the quiz her parents have planned, which she passes and is given the go-ahead to attend the trip. At the water park, Gaby pushes her around until she stands up to her. Grace sits with her bunkmates on the bus back to Lakeview.

### Blogging Buddies

   On the first day of school, Grace tells her parents that she plans to join the drama club, only for them to disagree, wanting her to continue with her reading to up her grades. She decides to form a plan: to lie and secretly attend the club. The plan eventually fails after her parents find out, but her mum later reconsiders and lets her stay in the club on one condition: to keep her grades up. If she doesn't, she will be removed. Grace excitedly shares the news on the camp blog and contributes to the surprise for Chelsea at the upcoming Camp Lakeview reunion.

### Reality Bites

After two weeks of summer school, Grace returns to camp to find Brynn is starring in *Guys and Dolls*, having missed an opportunity to star herself. Instead she is assigned to the newspaper elective, where she works with Spence. The other girls are convinced that the two like each other which Grace denies but soon finds she does. Priya, Gaby and Chelsea try to convince Grace that Spence is a flirt, but she refuses. She finds out from Spence that Gaby has lied about Jake being her brother and, after a discussion with Dr. Steve, her bunk forms a search party to find Gaby. Afterwards Grace attends the camp social where she admits she sees Spence as just a friend after seeing him flirting. She joins her friends for dancing.

## Trivia

* Her IM username is Grrrace.
* Her nickname is 'Gracie-spacie' since she is known to space out.