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Find the Right Summer Camp for Your Child
Your library's Guide to Summer Camps looks like a thick little phone book with thousands of listings. An Internet search engine has 22,000 camps in its data base. How do you choose a camp - when every description sounds wonderful, every camp brochure is fantastic, and every website looks like a gorgeous work of wilderness art?
The best way to choose a camp is to first determine what you and your child want from the camping experience and then go from there. If your child wants a classic camp experience with swimming, hiking and S'mores, then you want a general camp. If your child has an interest in a certain sport or wants a certain kind of wilderness experience like backpacking, or if your child has interest in particular field like drama, then you may want to look at a specialty camp. More on
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