Camp Week With Dad

By Donald Cooper

Would your dad take a whole week off work... just to go to camp with your class?

Donald is in the fourth grade, and his class is going to camp for a whole week - but the trip needs chaperones, or it can't happen at all. So Donald asks his dad the biggest question of his life... and Dad says YES.

With Donald's best friend Sean, Sean's big brother Jessy, and their teacher Mrs. Keith, the class piles onto a school bus - thirty kids, four adults, and one poor bus driver - and sings its way into the California mountains for the adventure of a lifetime:

- A stop in Columbia, a real 1850s gold-rush ghost town - a live stagecoach robbery, candle dipping, jawbreakers as big as baseballs, and sarsaparilla at the old St. Charles Saloon
- A camp among the giant sequoias, where Dad is in charge of eight wild fourth-grade boys
- A three-mile zig-zag hike, single file, to the top of a mountain
- A hawk, a raccoon, snakes, and a live tarantula - and helping thin a young forest growing back after a fire
- A silent two-and-a-half-mile walk on a wooden boardwalk over rushing water
- A night in a mountaintop observatory, looking through a huge telescope at Jupiter, Mars, and the Moon
- Ghost stories, guitar songs, and s'mores around a stone campfire - and a Friday trail ride on donkeys

But the best part of Camp Week isn't the ghost town, the mountain, or even the donkeys. It's that Donald's dad gave up a week of work to be there with him - and when it was over, he said he'd do it all again.

A true story from the childhood of Donald Cooper, author of "Two Weeks With Sandy ", "Satin, My Pet Chow Chow," and "Three Bullies, One Friday."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPJ1GXTC
• ISBN13: 9798237188004
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Donald Cooper
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"