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Zusatztext http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/summer-novels-for-kids/2011/05/31/AGLy9VZH_story.html NERD CAMP By Elissa Brent Weissman Atheneum. $15.99. Ages 8-12 Gabe! 10! can hardly wait to dive into the sonnets! syllogisms and scavenger hunts at the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment! a sleepaway camp for bright kids. That is! until he discovers that his soon-to-be stepbrother! Zack! scorns such things as nerdy. With his cellphone! surfboard and poor spelling! Zack seems the epitome of cool! and bespectacled Gabe yearns for a similar sangfroid. Gabe’s path to geeky self-acceptance is filled with quirky adventure. There’s a UFO sighting! a stealth kayak mission and a clandestine lice-breeding lab! along with bunkmates who recite the digits of pi (for fun!) and tape pictures of Beethoven to their cabin walls. Fans of “The Big Bang Theory” may recognize in Gabe and his smart! funny friends the youthful counterparts of the zany brainiacs on that popular TV show. --Washington Post 6/17/11 Informationen zum Autor Elissa Brent Weissman is the author of The Short Seller , Nerd Camp , Nerd Camp 2.0 , Standing for Socks , The Trouble with Mark Hopper , and the editor of Our Story Begins . She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit her at EBWeissman.com. Klappentext For 10-year-old Gabe! the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be! but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zach! his cool future stepbrother! without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds." Nerd Camp Chapter 1 GABE It was so late that it was almost tomorrow. Gabe had been awake later than this only once before. That was New Year’s Eve, and his mom had let him have a sleepover with some of his math team friends. Rather than counting down to the new year when it was just ten seconds away, like most people, at 8:00 p.m. they figured out how many seconds there were until the ball dropped and then counted down ten seconds occasionally throughout the night (at 8:32 they counted down from 12,480 to 12,470). He thought now of figuring out how many seconds there were until his train tomorrow, but that would probably just make him more excited and anxious, and Gabe needed to stop thinking about tomorrow so he could sleep. He couldn’t help being excited about the future— the future with my new brother! he thought, even though he was trying so hard not to think at all. He remembered back to first grade, when his friend Eric’s little sister was born, and how jealous he was. “Can you please have a baby?” he’d asked his mom again and again. “You need a mom and a dad to have a baby,” his mom had said. “And they have to want to have a baby together.” Gabe had known even then that that wasn’t going to happen. His mom and dad were divorced—they had been divorced from the time he was a baby himself—and they wouldn’t want to have another baby together, since they didn’t even talk to each other except for a few words when one of them dropped him off with the other. “You’re enough for me, Gabe,” his mother always told him. “I know you’d like a brother or sister, but I’m sorry. It’s going to be just us.” Sometimes she gave his head a squeeze and added, “You’ve got enough brains for two kids, anyway.” But Gabe kept hoping that his mom would surprise him. One time, last year, Gabe made the grave mistake of asking her, excitedly, if...
