Katie Carew's third-grade class spends three days at Science Camp, where Katie magically changes places with the strict Head Counselor while on a hike and gets her group hopelessly lost. Includes directions for making all-natural soap.
Katie discovers that the magic wind has followed her to summer camp when she suddenly turns into the baby raccoon she and a new friend have been secretly feeding, and then later gets an inside view of her cabin's bully.
Karen and her friends go to farm camp, where she takes care of a little lamb. When she decides to enter him in the county fair, Tia, who lives on a farm, tells her she can't win, but Karen is determined to try anyway.
During a stay at King Jellyjam's Sports Camp, Wendy thinks the counselors are a little too happy--eerily happy--and concerned about winning, but her "sports freak" brother is not convinced.
Despite the fact that Megan is deaf and Cindy can hear, the two girls become friends when Cindy moves into Megan's neighborhood, but when they go away to camp, their friendship is put to the test.
When Horace and his schoolmates spend a weekend at a camp in the Laffy Woods, the Cupcaked Crusader must cope with Mr. Dienow, the diabolical science teacher, as well as his sister's dangerous search for Blootinite, and the forest monsters known as Clownosauruses.