Chiggers

Camp promises to be a great time for 13 year-old Abby; she's planning to spend time with her friend Rose and she'll be bunking with Beth, a girl she met the summer before. But Rose is too busy to spend any time hanging out with Abby, and Beth has developed a persona that's almost too cool for Abby. Then Shasta - pretty and fun - arrives, but she also rubs Beth the wrong way. This is a classic summer camp story of the friendships and betrayals among girls that epitomizes what it's like to be female, nerdy, and adolescent in America.

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