Madison crams a lifetime of growing up into two weeks at Band Camp in Beans on Toast (Orca $7.95), a first novel by Shelley Hrdlitschka. With her parents' divorce and her recent move to the West Coast, making friends hasn't been easy for Madison-and she finds it isn't much easier at camp.
Hrdlitschka is a former teacher whose second novel, Disconnected (Orca $7.95), concerns 'psychokinesis'. Two boys are inexplicably drawn together from a great distance. 1-55143-116-5

[BCBW WINTER 1998]