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Post by sparklymouse on Jun 17, 2008 15:58:49 GMT -5
Karen's chapters didn't feel like Karen in this one. I have a hard time believing she didn't care that she wasn't in the same cabin as Hannie and Nancy.
Nancy's always such a downer. Her chapters are boring.
I like how Hannie and Linny "Nature Boy" were both so in to the camp experience. They seem like a fun family in the LS books.
I wonder why they didn't do more LS super specials. This was the last one and I think there were quite a few regular books after it.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Jun 17, 2008 19:20:47 GMT -5
Karen's chapters didn't feel like Karen in this one. I have a hard time believing she didn't care that she wasn't in the same cabin as Hannie and Nancy. Nancy's always such a downer. Her chapters are boring. Karen seemed very OOC to me in this book. Her "I'm bored and tough" act wasn't really like her. Same with being jumpy and scared at the campout near the end of the book. Karen is usually the brave one; that wasn't like her at all. I agree about Nancy being a downer. Her chapters were boring and she was being so clingy to Hannie that I actually liked it when Hannie told her off. I mean I sympathized with Nancy but even I thought she was overdoing it when she began clinging to Hannie's shirt. I definitely liked Hannie's chapters the best. I liked that she enjoyed camp so much and I liked reading about her new experiences and her new friends .
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 23, 2008 19:35:08 GMT -5
I haven't read this one in a really long time. I liked Hannie's chapters, but I sympathized with Nancy a lot. Hannie and Karen are always up for new experiences, but Nancy seems like more of a homebody. They couldn't understand her level of homesickness and went on ahead without her. I like that she made friends with one of the campers, Christine, and they had similar personalities and enjoyed hanging out together.
I liked the chapter where they go to that fair and then Nancy and Hannie make up.
I liked Linny's chapter or chapters too. I like the Papadakises a lot.
Didn't David Michael have a "little brother" to look after, and thought he was really nerdy because his nose was always running? That always amused me ;D
I liked the description of what Karen had for breakfast before she left for camp. I can't really remember what it was, Krispy Krunchie cereal and some other stuff.
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Post by annieb on Dec 14, 2008 16:17:41 GMT -5
I liked the different point of views from Nancy and Hannie as well. Hannie seemed like a fun loving person. Nancy kind of reminds me of myself sometimes.
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Post by tiff85 on Dec 19, 2008 21:07:29 GMT -5
Karen's Campout is one of my favorite Super Special books. I loved the camping trip and the county fair. It was also nice to hear David Michael and Linny's point of view.
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 20, 2010 13:55:14 GMT -5
Maybe the LS super specials weren't that popular.
I liked that characters other than Karen got chapters. I liked the chapters about the fair and the campout.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Apr 14, 2011 14:12:15 GMT -5
I didn't really like this one that much. I think it was because of the Super Special format. I don't think the Little Sister books can handle it because the chapters are so short as it is. Nothing really seemed to happen in this book. Everything seemed REALLY choppy. For example, in the last chapter, I was a bit annoyed how the CIT tells Karen that maybe she was acting bored because she was really afraid. Okay. But they spend NO time elaborating on that, and then in the next few sentences, Karen is already home at the little house. Very rushed.
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Post by Honeybee on Jan 15, 2012 23:44:27 GMT -5
I like Hannie's story the best. It was fun to read her story. When I read Karen's story. It was like, it wasn't Karen at all. Nancy story was on the boring side. Was cool to hear Michael & Linny side of the story. So, we can know what's going on over at the boys camp. I enjoy reading this book.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 16, 2012 21:32:19 GMT -5
I wish that the LS Super Specials had been longer than the regular LS books, like the BSC Super Specials were. That would have been much better than those stupid puzzles at the end of the books.
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Post by scrounge on Jan 17, 2012 1:29:22 GMT -5
Stupid puzzles that ruin the book if you do them, and are a waste of space if you don't! I never liked writing in books and didn't like regular books with puzzles printed in them.
Nancy was really annoying in this book. I know we've mentioned elsewhere on the board that her parents never seemed to hire baby-sitters. Maybe if they'd left her with Kristy & co. every time they needed to go to the grocery store, she wouldn't have been so homesick in every Little Sister book where they go away from home.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 30, 2014 19:14:55 GMT -5
Kylie, ITA with everything you posted above. I had difficulty believing that Karen was so not into having a good time at camp, the entire time she was there! I can understand at first wanting to maybe prove to herself that she was fine without Kristy. Maybe some of the activities were familiar but usually Karen as she often tells us can find fun in most anything and that is something positive about her. Not that she (or anyone) sometimes has a day when they prefer to be more on their own or are going through something to where what is normally enjoyable isn't, I sure have been there myself. I might have also enjoyed more had Claudia or Mal been Karen or Hannie and Nancy's CIT.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jul 1, 2014 14:14:51 GMT -5
This one would be a good Karen book to read this summer.
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 3, 2023 13:46:14 GMT -5
I agree with Virgoscorpio’s post from 12 years ago. This book was too disjointed to ever gain traction and get into a real story. I did like the boys’ chapters. We got a little insight into David Michael’s life at home. He wanted the chance to be Independent with a capital I and not be sandwiched in between a bunch of younger siblings and adults watching over him. I never thought about it, but he might have some middle child syndrome as he got older. I thought that it was super crappy that they immediately got assigned a “little brother” to mentor. It didn’t even make sense as they were practically the same age. Lol at his counselor who was allowed to wear loud button-down shirts over top of his camp Ts. Rick, the male Claudia. Linny sounded like he was going to be all Bear Grylls someday and live off the grid. He started a fire by rubbing rocks together! They don’t even try that in Survivor anymore. They just wait until Jeff gives them flint. I thought it was nice that he complemented Hannie, too. He thought it was cool that she was such a good swimmer. I didn’t think much about the Three Musketeers. I empathized a little with Nancy because it sounded like she was introverted and overwhelmed by people being every which way around her. (Lol, she missed her padded toilet seat at home. Those are gross.) I liked that she knew right where to look for Hannie at the fair. I liked that Hannie wanted to be Miss Independent and do new things with new people. I didn’t really get Karen’s story. The activity pages included two recipes that made my stomach churn. “No-cook hot dogs” where they said to stack three slices of bologna with two slices of swiss cheese in between, roll it into a tight tube, and then cover it with mustard and relish. This is really just a bologna sandwich, but I hate bologna, so ew. Also, “marshmallow taffy.” They said to mutilate some marshmallows until they turn stiff. Just keep pulling and squishing them like you’re pulling taffy. Then, you stick a chocolate bar in a sunbeam until it starts melting, then stick the chocolate and dirty, crunchy marshmallows in between grahams to get a smore. Mmm. I felt like this kid listening to David Michael’s ghost story when reading these recipes: Attachments:
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 3, 2023 22:26:25 GMT -5
Lol! Yeah I remember that taffy thing and being like “…?”
I loved the activity pages. Learned how to make friendship bracelets and lanyards.
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