Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell (Bloombury, 2010)

What do you get when you get 4 modern families and have them spend 2 months living a 1890s lifestyle named Camp Frontier?  Chaos, laughs and a big appreciation of modern living (things like air conditioning, grocery stores, indoor bathroom and plumbing etc)  Meanwhile 13-year-old Gen Walsh (the main character of this book) manages to sneak her cell phone inside the camp and is able to blog to the outside world how her summer vacation is really going.  Obviously no one in the camp realizes this, nor does Gen whose blog turns out to be a bigger hit than anyone could have realized.  Readers will find this a fast paced and comic read with several surprises.

J/YA Crossover, R—Tee C (Port Chester/Rye Brook)

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