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Snake Camp (A Stepping Stone Book) |  | Author: George Edward Stanley
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 852978
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 48
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.1
ISBN: 0307264068
UPC: 033500264061
EAN: 9780307264060
ASIN: 0307264068
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
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Product Description
Stevie Marsh is off to Camp Viper for the summer to learn about computers. But Stevie doesnÍt discover until itÍs too late that Camp Viper isnÍt a computer camp at all. ItÍs a snake camp! And Stevie absolutely, positively hates snakes.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Funny, Clever Book! May 16, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Our son has always been afraid of snakes - until he read SNAKE CAMP. Now, while he's not exactly a snake charmer yet, he is interested in overcoming his fear of snakes. This is a funny, very clever book that also has a very important message.
 Good book for emerging readers June 20, 2009
Dwight Blubaugh (The only Eaton Rapids on Earth, MI, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the Stepping Stone books, good stories and good reading levels for emerging readers ready to start beginning chapter books.
(spoiler alert - full book summary)
In SNAKE CAMP, Stevie doesn't want to go to just any camp. He doesn't like the woods, the bugs, the poison ivy, and especially not snakes. So Stevie's parents have signed him up for a computer camp instead - Camp Viper. At least they THINK it's a computer camp. But when Stevie arrives there on the camp bus, he learns that the vipers at camp aren't the latest in computers, they're the kind that hiss, have fangs, and slither on their bellies!
Stevie thinks he'll just sneak back on the bus and stow away on its trip back to the city, but finds out that the bus stays at camp all summer. So instead, as the campers are each being partnered up with one of the sanctuary snakes at camp, Stevie says he brought his own snake that's in a box - the horribilis slimus vipera. This rare snake is allergic to light and can only come out on very dark and cloudy days. The other kids are skeptical, but Stevie cleverly convinces them by leaving some lime jello on one of the skeptical campers while he's sleeping, supposedly some of the green slime the horribilis leaves wherever it travels.
While Stevie waits for someone to discover his lie, or a cloudy day to force his hand, he finds a friendly-looking green snake and discovers that he isn't afraid of it - so he adopts it as his snake partner and gives it the name Rocky, which he then changes to Emerald when it lays eggs. When there eventually IS a dark and cloudy day, the kids talk Stevie into opening his suitcase, where he now supposedly stores his rare horribilis snake. When Stevie is sure the empty suitcase will be his undoing when the kids realize he was lying all along, the other campers proclaim the horribilis escaped, and the whole camp turns out to help search for it. And in the meantime, Emerald has begun to follow Stevie everywhere he goes and they have developed a close bond. Stevie asks her questions, with Emerald waving her head up and down for yes, back and forth for no.
The book is cute and silly, far-fetched throughout, and obviously fantasy as the readers gets closer to the end of the book. While some young readers would probably be fooled into thinking the book was realistic fiction, this would be a good book to use in helping young readers distinguish when a book that sounds MOSTLY possible might instead be fantasy, due to only a few aspects of the story.
Young readers will likely enjoy this book - 44 pages, 5 chapters, large print, and full-color cartoonish illustrations. The book cover lists the book as being in the humor genre.
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