Books like Letters from camp by Kate Klise

When ten‑year‑old Opal arrives in Naomi, Florida, she discovers friendship, community, and the healing power of a big ugly dog named Winn‑Dixie during her first summer in town.

Ivan, a gorilla who has lived behind glass in a shopping‑mall circus for 27 years, learns new meaning for art and friendship when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives.

When eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing dies, sixteen heirs race through riddles, blizzards, burglaries and bombs to solve his will and claim a mysterious $10 million inheritance.

Eleven-year-old Melody, a girl with cerebral palsy and a photographic memory, cannot speak, walk, or write. Living inside her thoughts, she discovers a way to finally speak out, challenging the world’s assumptions about her abilities.

A Newbery‑Medal‑winning juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, about a young writer who learns about family, friendship, and school life through letters.

Follow seven fifth-graders through a lively year at Snow Hill School as they navigate friendships, family, and the surprises a new teacher brings into their lives.

A story about Nick Allen, who invents a new word and becomes a local hero by spreading it across the country.

The Penderwicks follows four sisters, their two rabbit companions, and a curious new boy as they navigate adventures and family bonds during a summer vacation in Massachusetts.

Ten‑year‑olds Petra and Calder tackle a mysterious art heist when a Vermeer vanishes, using their unique skills to solve a cross‑continental scandal.

Rafe Khatchadorian arrives at Camp Wannamorra, where he and his bunkmates must contend with the popular kids who try to sabotage their summer, turning boredom into adventure and friendship.

Three girls from a Pennsylvania middle school go on a real-life adventure to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.

The Boxcar Children head to summer camp for a week of new friends, thrilling activities, and the annual camp Olympics—only to find everything going wrong as they must uncover the culprit before the games begin.

The Alden siblings and their grandfather investigate a missing ranger at Everglades National Park, and a panther gives them a vital clue.

**What secrets does the Shadow Market hold?** The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past. Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah. This description comes from the publisher. *Ghosts of the Shadow Market* takes place in the Shadowhunter world, the first book of which is *City of Bones*.

Two boys discover friendship through a Boy Scout camping competition.

Three trouble‑makers—Gecko, Arjay, and Terence—tug the cords of their halfway house to keep it open, a desperate bid to stay out of juvenile detention.

Two young detectives in Switzerland chase a dog bank robber who is actually a Professor Sardine, a clever sleuth in the style of Professor Challenger.

The Alden siblings uncover a frightful mystery while staying at an old camp in Quebec, Canada, as strange events seem designed to scare them away.

At age 15, Heather Reed stumbles onto a conspiracy when a rival tries to force her friend’s grandparents to sell their summer camp, uncovering secrets, danger, and a mystery that only the young detective can solve.

Blinded teenage Laureth and her brother Benjamin travel from London to New York to find their missing father, relying on their father's training to read patterns, clues, and numbers in a dangerous mystery.