“Inventive and thought-provoking.” The Guardian
Camp Challenger is an exciting summer residential where you make new friends, build resilience, test your limits and maybe even Beat the Game!
Joni is a loner at school so is packed off to Game Camp by her mother to be forced to make friends. She joins a group of kids with very different personalities - one is super-confident but takes daft risks, one is unable to make a decision unless they have worked out every possible way it might play out, one is spoilt and can’t be bothered to take part, and one has a mean-streak which masks a deeper insecurity. Five players who need to make decisions together - and Joni (that’s you!) has the casting vote. You will be put into a team of five with strangers, no screens, no shortcuts. Everyone starts from scratch and has to make friends and find a way to the finish line together.
Helen Rutter is an acclaimed author and comedian. Her debut, The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh , was a Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month, nominated for the Carnegie, shortlisted for the Costa, Blue Peter and Branford Boase Awards, and winning the Teach Primary Book Award.