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  • Series: Formac First Novels
  • Imprint: Formac Publishing Company Limited
  • Publication Date: 15 May 2001
  • Copyright Year: 2001
  • ISBN: 9780887805349
  • Page Count: 64
  • Dimensions: 4.25" x 7"
  • Interest ages: 5-10

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Carrie’s Camping Adventure

by Lesley Choyce

illustrated by Mark Thurman

Carrie says she'll organize everything for a camping trip if only her mother will take her and her brother and their best friends for a first-ever night in the woods.
Carrie says she'll organize everything for a camping trip if only her mother will take her and her brother and their best friends for a first-ever night in the woods. Once they arrive at the campground, they find out Carrie forgot to pack the food. Mom leaves the kids to figure out how to pitch the tent, make a fire and entertain themselves.

About the Authors

Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce
LESLEY CHOYCE is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach in Nova Scotia. A former grand champion of the Men's Open Canadian National Surfing Championships, he surfs on the Atlantic coast year-round, along with running a literary publishing house and teaching English at Dalhousie University. He also has a regular nationally-broadcast program on Vision TV called Off the Page with Lesley Choyce. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, including Carrie's Crowd and Go For It Carrie. His writing has earned him several awards, including two Dartmouth Book Awards and the Ann Connor Brimer Award for the Young Adult novel Good Idea Gone Bad. Five of his previous Formac novels have received the Canadian Children's Book Centre's "Our Choice" Award. The Ottawa Citizen calls him "a national treasure."

Mark Thurman

MARK THURMAN is a writer and ilustrator living half the year in Toronto and the other half in Owen Sound, Ontario. He has written and illustrated over 25 books for children, including the series Douglas the Elephant.

Subjects (BISAC)

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

Subjects

Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Fiction: Family, Juvenile Fiction: Humourous Stories

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