You're Sending Me Where?

Welcome! Benvenuti! Its summertime in northern Minnesota and a bus full of kids is about to arrive at the Italian Concordia Language Village, better known as camp. Inexplicably the chief lifeguard has chosen this moment to conduct a missing villager drill, prompting staff to strip to their underwear in a simulated rush to search the lake. Its an inopportune time for a surprise visit from the Health Inspector, but there he isjust as an Italian counselor calls through the walkie-talkie, My God, theres blood everywhere! Hes finally clobbered the chipmunk thats been stealing his candy. When at age six he had to be hauled kicking and screaming on the bus bound for camp, Eric Dregni could not have imagined this moment. But all the days and weeks of summer camp since then have shown him the abundant pleasures of this uniquely American experienceand given him plenty of stories to tell. In Youre Sending Me Where? Dregni takes us back to those boyhood days of running head-on into nature with his fellow campers and learning a few valuable lessons, such as dont let the van driver leave you and your canoe until youre sure theres actually water in the flowage. From discouraging summer love to soothing homesick campers toOh no! Bats!taking everyone to town for their rabies shots, to the difficulty of saying goodbye, Eric Dregnis wise, funny book reassures us that theres still a place in the woods where, unplugged from devices and screens, children of all ages can connect with the natural worldand with each other.