Campfire Girls' Outing; Or, Ethel Hollister's Second Summer in Camp

A girl caught between two futures. Ethel Hollister spent her first summer at Camp Fire Girls and came back transformed, having discovered something real in the forests and friendships that her mother's parlors could never offer. Now she's returning for her second summer, and the distance between who she was and who she's becoming grows impossible to ignore. Her mother, who loves her deeply, has spent years grooming Ethel for a fashionable marriage and high society life. But at camp, among girls learning to build fires and serve their communities, Ethel finds a different measure of worth. The novel captures a particular historical moment when progressive-era America was imagining new possibilities for young women beyond tea parties and debutante balls. It's a story about the quiet courage it takes to become yourself, even when the person insisting otherwise is someone who genuinely believes they're protecting your future.