The ninth book in the bestselling Emmie & Friends series — told from the alternating POVs of shy Emmie and class-clown Joe as they embark on a school camping trip.
Crushes. Camping. Middle School.
These days, Emmie doesn’t feel so invisible. At least not around her best friends and her crush, Tyler. Joe’s jokes aren’t landing the way they used to. Who doesn’t love a good prank? Apparently not his so-called friends, who don’t even seem to care if he’s around.
When their class goes on an end-of-year camping trip, Emmie and Joe find themselves stuck together — and expect the worst. But what happens instead turns out to be entirely unexpected.
New York Times bestseller Terri Libenson, BFA ’92, is back with a story about finding friendship in the least likely of places.
About the author
In addition to writing children’s books, Libenson is an award-winning cartoonist of the syndicated daily comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, which ran from 2006-2020. Previously, she was an award-winning humorous card writer for American Greetings. She graduated from WashU with a BFA in 1992 in illustration and a minor in art history. She developed her first professional comic strip, Got a Life, in 2000, which was distributed by King Features Weekly Service. The Pajama Diaries launched with King Features in 2006 and ran in hundreds of newspapers internationally until its retirement in 2020. She lives in Cleveland with her husband, Mike and is the proud mom of two grown daughters and a spoiled poodle, Rosie.