Adventure Books - the Summer Gift

April 29, 2010 - PRLog -- With summer camp season fast approaching, a book like "Summer Sleep-Away" is the perfect gift to pack into your child's camp trunk.  "Summer Sleep-Away" captures the essence of one boy's first summer spent away from home at a sleep-away camp up in the Berkshires. This charming young adult novel depicts the coming-of-age of Mattie Kleinfeld as he embarks on a summer filled with adventures and new friends.  Far from home, Mattie is at first homesick and sad.  But soon tears give way to baseball games and nighttime raids on the girls' bunks. Food fights, mud slides and overnight canoe trips.

Author Ofer Aronskind drew inspiration for his novel from his own childhood experiences spent at his family's summer camp up in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Aronskind spent every summer of his childhood up at camp and many of the characters and stories depicted in his book are based on his memories of those carefree wonderful summers.  "Summer Sleep-Away" recreates the magic that is sleep-away camp and will delight every reader of any age. Whether you're in camp now or went to camp a lifetime ago, "Summer Sleep-Away" will pull you back into the days of lazying around the bunk with a comic book or swimming out to the floating dock on a hot summer afternoon.

Find more about his books on: http://www.sleepawaysummercamp.com

"Summer Sleep-Away" is available online at Barnesandnoble.com, Amazon.com, iUniverse.com and other online bookstores. Look for Ofer Aronskind's other young adult books: "That Same Summer" and "Escape from Sunday School". Mr. Aronskind's next book -- "The Celebrities of Summer School" -- is due out this summer.

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Ofer Aronskind grew up in a camping family. The Aronskinds operated summer camps in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts for over 15 years. The adventures and anecdotes in this book, although fictionalized, are his boyhood memories.

Check Ofer's blog: http://summersleepaway.wordpress.com