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    Nature Calls
    Nature Calls
    Nature Calls
    Ebook85 pages47 minutes

    Nature Calls

    By Jessica Young and Jessica Secheret

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    Summer is here, and Finley is getting ready for Camp Acorn! She can't wait to make crafts, eat s'mores, and prove that she's tough enough to get back to nature. Unfortunately, she'll be sharing a cabin with Olivia Snotham, who's not exactly the outdoorsy type. When nature calls and the girls get lost on the way to the restrooms, Finley's spooky ghost story comes back to haunt them. As they work together to find a creative way home, Finley discovers that there's more than one way to be tough.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9781479581559
    Nature Calls
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    Jessica Young

    Jessica Young grew up in Ontario, Canada and now lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is an art teacher and writer. jessicayoungbooks.wordpress.com.

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      Nature Calls - Jessica Young

      Chapter 1

      READY TO ROUGH IT

      Finley Flowers got her new hiking boots out of her closet and tugged them on. They were the color of rust, with thick, nubby soles, and they laced up her ankles like roller skates. They were dirt-kicking, trail-blazing, stump-stomping boots. She couldn’t wait to try them out. It had only been a week since summer vacation had started, but it felt like a year. Now it was finally Finley’s first day of overnight camp, and she was ready.

      Finley tied her laces up tight and bounded down the stairs to the kitchen where her older brother, Zack, was finishing a bowl of cereal. I’m all packed for Camp Acorn! Finley told him. They have so many awesome activities — fishing, archery, camp cooking, creek exploring — there’s even a raft on the lake where you can make cool crafts.

      I know, Zack said, putting his bowl in the sink. I’ve been going there since I was eight, remember? He threw a box of granola bars into his backpack. Overnight camp’s not all fun and games. You have to be tough to rough it.

      I’m tough. Finley stood tall. Tougher than you.

      Ha! Zack smirked. We’ll see about that.

      Finley frowned. What’s that supposed to mean?

      It means I’ll believe it when I see it. Zack hoisted his backpack onto his shoulder and grabbed his sleeping bag. Everyone knows boys are tougher than girls.

      They are not! Finley protested.

      Zack gave her a sly smile. Prove it.

      As he walked away, Finley’s cheeks burned. Even though he was only two years older, Zack always made her feel small. But this time he’d gone too far. She’d show him how tough girls could be.

      * * *

      After breakfast, Finley lugged her bag to the car. Mom offered to help, but Finley shook her head. I’m tough enough to carry my own stuff, she said.

      Zack threw his pack in the backseat and flopped in after it. He turned up his headphones and took out his Big League Boys baseball book. Finley’s little sister, Evie, climbed in beside him with her bag of snacks and magazines. Then they went to pick up Finley’s best friend, Henry Lin. Finley was glad Henry was going to camp, too — it would be hard to spend a whole week without him.

      When they pulled into Henry’s driveway he was sitting on his rolled-up sleeping bag, writing in his notebook.

      Probably checking his packing list, thought Finley. Henry had a list for every situation.

      After running to tell his mom and dad goodbye, Henry chucked his things in the back of the car and hopped in. I just double-checked the list, and I’m all set, he said.

      Finley gave him a fist bump. Camp Acorn, here we come!

      Kate and Lia said they’re going, too, said Henry. It’ll be just like school, but better.

      Finley grinned. Kate and Lia were in Henry and Finley’s class. They were always together, just like Finley and Henry.

      The drive seemed to take forever. Evie whined about wanting to go to camp and sang Ninety-Nine Bottles of Root Beer on the Wall about a million times. Then she drank too many juice boxes, and they had to make three pit stops.

      After a quick lunch at the Last Chance Diner — grilled cheese with extra pickles and a butterscotch-chocolate milkshake — Finley’s carsickness kicked in. But Finley toughed it out — she didn’t want to look like a baby in front of Zack.

      Finally, they turned down a gravel lane, bumping and scraping along the road into the woods. It was dark in the shadows of the trees, except for a few beams of sunlight that cut through the dense canopy. Overgrown bushes scratched at the car windows.

      This forest is creepy, Evie said.

      Are you sure this is the right way? Finley asked, hoping it wasn’t. It doesn’t look like a camp.

      We’re in the Whispering Woods, Mom said. Listen! Nature’s calling.

      Finley listened, but all she could

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