The Firefly Summer

CONTENTS Cover Title Page Dedication Van Camp Family Tree The Hollywood Edit: Greenlight Alert! The Pocono Eagle: A Groundbreaking Autumn? Part One: The Camp Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Part Two: The Map Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Part Three: The Crew Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Part Four: The Hunt Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Part Five: The Treasure Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 The Hollywood Edit: Option Alert! The Pocono Eagle: Camp Van Camp to Return! Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright Guide Cover Start of Content Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright I II III V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 
 
 “This is the kind of book you wish you could live in.” —Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author
 The Firefly Summer
 New York Times bestselling author
 Morgan Matson
 
 
 
 
 
 For Jane Finn
 with love and gratitude
 
 
 Van Camp Family Tree
 Grandpa & Grandma
 Cal & Vivian
 Aunts & Uncles
 Abby
 Benji
 Casey
 Dennis
 Quinn
 Kids
 Pete, 15
 Diya, 12
 Ryanna, 11
 Max, 10
 Hattie, 9
 Abby Van Camp & Neal Kharkar
 Pete
 Diya
 Benji Van Camp & Katie Lowenstein
 Hattie
 Casey Van Camp (deceased) & Dave Stuart
 Ryanna
 Dennis Van Camp & Byron Harris
 Max
 Quinn Van Camp
 
 
 The Hollywood Edit GREENLIGHT ALERT!
 The long-in-development movie Frank N. Stein is finally coming to life! This adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel imagines Frankenstein’s monster as a superhero whose powers are awakened when he is reanimated. The script was written by Dave Stuart.
 Stuart’s first movie was the summer camp feature Bug Juice, based on the award-winning play. (The film won no awards and was roundly panned.) He’s more recently known for his high-concept scripting work (the Alien Rebels franchise and the Ghost Robot franchise). Stuart is also a director, but following the box office bomb of Annul and Void five years ago, he has not directed since.
 Filming will take place this summer in Budapest, Hungary.
 
 
 The Pocono Eagle A Groundbreaking Autumn?
 It seems as though, after years of legal wrangling, construction will finally begin on a former summer camp in Lake Phoenix. The 40-acre plot of land was formerly the site of two summer camps that sat across a lake from each other—Camp Somerset for Boys (closed in 1987) and Camp Van Camp (closed in 1993). The two owners of the overlapping plots of land have been in and out of court for the past few years, with the owners of Camp Van Camp fighting any development. But while it is currently unclear what is happening with the Camp Van Camp land, the owner of the former Camp Somerset, Rick Andersen, has procured permits to begin construction on his land in September—with six planned lakefront condominiums.
 We reached out for a comment from Andersen, who inherited the former Somerset property five years ago when his father, beloved community figure Robert Andersen, passed away. “I’m thrilled to begin construction in the fall. It’s a very exciting phase,” Andersen replied in an email. When asked about pushback from his across-the-lake neighbors, and the community, he replied, “I have every right to build and don’t listen to anyone who says otherwise.”
 We were unable to get Cal Van Camp, owner of the Camp Van Camp property, on the phone. But when we called at his house, the person answering the phone (she did not identify herself but sounded young. And like