02375cam a2200301 i 4500 423740993 TxAuBib 20200504120000.0 191029s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019041817 9781538732267 HRD 27.00 1538732262 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib rda Krasnow, Iris. Camp girls [BOOK] : fireside lessons on friendship, courage, and loyalty / Iris Krasnow. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020. 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Iris Krasnow was 8 years old when she first attended sleep-away camp, building lasting friendships and essential life skills amid the towering pine trees and open skies of Wisconsin. Decades later, she returned to Camp Agawak as a staff member to help resurrect Agalog, the camp's defunct magazine that she wrote for as a child. There, she revisits the activities she loved as a young girl: singing songs around a campfire, swimming in a pristine lake, sleeping under the stars-experiences that continue to fill her with wisdom and perspective. A nostalgic, inspiring memoir with a universal message on the importance of long-term friendship for campers and non-campers alike, Camp Girls weaves between past and present, filling the page in delicious detail with cabin pranks, canoe trips in rainstorms, and the joy of finding both your independence and your interdependence in nature alongside your peers. Through rich storytelling, Iris shares her own and other campers' adventures and the lessons from childhood that can shape fulfilling and successful adulthoods. Ultimately, Iris powerfully demonstrates that camp is more than a place or a collection of activities: it's where we learn what it means to be human and what it feels like to truly belong to a family-not of blood, but of history, loyalty, and tradition. Provided by publisher. 20200504. Krasnow, Iris Childhood and youth. Camps for girls Wisconsin. Camps Social aspects. Campers (Persons) United States Biography.