Miss Camper: A Graphic Novel

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Author(s)

Kat Fajardo

Publisher

Scholastic

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Release Date

July 01, 2025

ISBN

978-1338535617

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A companion to Miss Quinces, Kat Fajardo's bestselling, award-winning middle-grade graphic novel!

Sue is heading to Camp Willow this summer! She’s looking forward to hiking, archery, and making comics in the fresh air. She’s especially excited about LARPing (live-action role-playing) and can’t wait for the freedom of being away from home. But she won’t be far from family because her big sister, Carmen, is a camp counselor and her little sister, Ester, is a fellow camper and won’t give her any space! All Sue wants is to make memories with her friends, but they’re assigned to only a few of the same activities. To make matters even worse, her best friend, Sam, has a best camp friend named Marisol? And Sue’s good friend Izzy has a crush on Sue?! This summer isn’t at all going as planned!

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Off to Summer Camp

July 12, 2025 (Updated: June 21, 2026)

Overall rating

3.8

Plot

3.0

Characters

4.0

Writing Style

4.0

Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)

4.0

Sue, whose adventures with her family in Honduras were covered in Miss Quinces, is finally allowed to go to a two week sleep away camp in Upstate New York with her friends. Her older sis ter Carmen will be a counselor, and her younger sister Ester is going along as well. Her friend Same is also attending, and the two are in the same cabin. Their counselor is Minji, and Sam's friend Marisol is there as well. All of the campers introduce themselves by their pronouns, and there are a wide variety of identifications among both the counselors and campers. While there are some traditional camp activities like archery, bracelet making and being outside, there are also Live Action Role Playing Workshops. A culminating activity in a carnival. Sue has to deal with Ester being very clingy, some light friend drama, and whether or not she "like likes" Izzy, who wants her to be his girlfriend. The author includes pictures of herself at summer camp in the early 2000s, as well as a note about how much it influenced her life.

Good Points

There have been a number of graphic novels about summer camp lately (Miller's Stuck, Agarwal and Durfey-Lavoie's Sink or Swim, Karim Summer Vamp, LaMotte and Xu's Unhappy Camper, Smith, Tanner, and Gomez's Absolute Zeros: Camp Launchpad, Mercado's Chunky Goes to Camp), and this is another solid entry.

In Miss Quinces, Sue's mother was against her going to camp, and I wasn't sure how her sister ended up as a counselor. It adds another layer of interest to have family at the camp as well as friends, so I'm glad Sue has everyone there.

The illustrations are brightly colored, and this is a little happier than a lot of graphic novels, which tend to be memoirs about sad times. Readers who liked the first book and want more of Sue's story will enjoy this one.