Young Adult Revisited

Oh man, I have no idea why I haven’t recapped this one yet. I think I read this book 27 times when I was younger. Anyway, this takes place when Stacey is living in NYC. The BSC apparently watched The Parent Trap a few too many times and decided to go to camp for the summer. They wanted Stacey to go and she kept turning them down before deciding to go. Oh, and a whole bunch of their charges go too. The older girls are all Counselors In Training aka CITs. Stacey decides to make everyone keep a journal of their experiences so she can put it together as a book at the end of the summer. On the first night at camp, she rolls around in some leaves, which turns out to be poison ivy. She gets it all over her body, catches pink eye, develops a cold, gets bit all over by mosquitoes, and gets impetigo. She spends part of the book in the infirmary. Claudia meets a cute guy when some CITs from the other side of the lake come over to tell the girls about a dance. Her charges find out his name (Wil

Lucy wakes up in the middle of the night hearing her neighbor Allen playing basketball in the driveway. Then she remembers that he died just a few weeks ago and feels bad about losing one of her best friends. She remembers that he fell off a cement embankment that kids climb all the time, and that his mother gave her a box of things to pass onto his friends. She goes through the box and finds a videotape that she watches. She sees a few random scenes before falling asleep and doesn’t see the person staring at her from his house. The next day at school, she passes the box along to some of his friends. His friend Brad takes his comic books and his girlfriend Suzanne acts snippy towards Lucy, saying that it’s morbid for anyone to want any of his stuff. She also gives his basketball to his friend Jon because they used to play together. She gets two calls later that night from someone who just breathes and hangs up. When the phone rings again, she goes off on the caller but it’s Jon. He