Nerd Camp

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Book design by Jessica Handelman and Karina Granda

The text for this book is set in Cheltenham.

Manufactured in the United States of America

0411 FFG

First Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Weissman, Elissa Brent.

Nerd camp / Elissa Brent Weissman. —1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zack, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for “nerds.”

ISBN 978-1-4424-1703-8 (hardcover)

[1. Camps—Fiction. 2. Ability—Fiction. 3. Stepbrothers—Fiction.
4. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 5. Individuality—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.W448182Ner 2011

[Fic]—dc22 2010042913

ISBN 978-1-4424-1705-2 (eBook)