Camp

Lev A.C. Rosen

2020 • 384 pages

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From the author of the acclaimed Jack of Hearts (and other parts) comes a sweet and sharp screwball comedy that critiques the culture of toxic masculinity within the queer community. Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it's where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim - who's only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists. This year, though, it's going to be different. Randy has reinvented himself as 'Del' - buff, masculine, and on the market. Even if it means giving up show tunes, nail polish, and his unicorn bedsheets, he's determined to get Hudson to fall for him. But as he and Hudson grow closer, Randy has to ask himself how much is he willing to change for love. And is it really love anyway, if Hudson doesn't know who he truly is?

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Renata Sancken

This is a lot of fun! To any savvy reader it's completely obvious how this “flamboyant teen gives himself a masculine makeover to become more like his dream guy's type” plotline is going to play out, and that's sort of lampshaded by the reactions of all of Randy/Del's friends, but like, it's a fun story, and obviously the queer spin on the storyline makes it new. I loved all the details about Camp Outland, a summer camp for queer teens. (That camp is fictional but I know there are real ones like it.) The camp's mandatory queer history sessions are a great way to infodump interesting pieces of queer history that I think a lot of queer teen readers will particularly find interesting.

August 1, 2020