In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Steph Katzovi discusses her new middle grade novel, Hurricamp!. The story follows Laura “Noodle” Newman as she attends sleepaway summer camp for the first time. She battles homesickness, tries to make new friends, and then gets hit by a hurricane. If you’ve ever attended summer camp, you’ll appreciate Noodle’s adventures with an angry skunk, the pranking neighboring cabin and, of course, the beloved counselor. Steph likes to say that this book took one childhood and six years to write. If she could do it all again, Steph would embrace her camp experience more than she did when she was a kid. This book, Hurricamp!, was inspired by her wish to do things differently. In this episode, I’ll chat with Steph about her writing journey, why she chose to write this book for middle grade readers (who she admits feel like her peer group), and why she believes her main character, Noodle, is a better version of herself as a kid (and probably as an adult).
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