Pack your bags! We're heading off to sleepaway camp!
OwlCrate Jr's June 2022 CAMPFIRE STORIES box features stories and items perfect for summer camp adventures. These kinds of stories stories allow campers to experience new situations, face personal challenges, and maybe learn a bit more about themselves along the way. So grab your sunscreen and bug spray — you're in for a memorable summer!
Below you'll find our June 2022 monthly magazine with an interview with our featured author, a mad libs letter, and more!
Scroll down to check out this magazine, or download the complete magazine HERE.
Spoilers ahead!
Telling ghost stories around a campfire is one of the most quintessential summer experiences a person can have, and Melanie Demmer has artfully captured this moment — ghostly eavesdroppers and all!
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Item Spoiler List
Take a peek at all the marvelous goodies we packed into this month's box.
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Interview with the Author
Thank you so much to Janet Key, the author of our July 2022 featured book, Twelfth. This story is a heartwarming, contemporary mystery set at a theater camp that’s all about finding friendship and finding yourself.
Read on to discover what inspired Janet to write Twelfth, Janet's own experiences with summer camp, and how she approached writing each character.
Be sure to join the OwlCrate Jr Book Club Read-Along right here as we read through Twelfth and dive deep this incredible story! This month's book club starts next week on Monday, July 18th and our reading schedule will be as follows:
- July 18 — Pages 1 - 113
- July 21 — Pages 114 - 232
- July 25 — Pages 233 - 335
**Anyone who participates in the comments will be entered to win a free OwlCrate Jr box! Winners will be selected on Thursday, July 28th.**
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Creativity Corner
Inspired by possibly the best activity a group of campers can do after lights out, fill in the blanks of this letter to send a hilarious update home from summer camp!
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Community Feature
Read on for an interview with Babs Allen, the newest member to join the OwlCrate Jr team as assistant box curator!
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Over on the OwlCrate Jr Instagram, we always love seeing bookworms opening their boxes, taking reading selfies and having fun with their new OwlCrate Jr goodies. Why not snap a few pics yourself and join in on the fun!
Didn’t receive the June box? No problem! Show us your favorite place to read and you may just win a box to show off for next month.
To enter: post one or more photos on Instagram spotlighting your love of reading middle grade. Please use the hashtag #OCJRCAMP so we don't miss your entries. Accounts must be public and winners are chosen at random.
And be sure you tune in next Wednesday, July 10th at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET on Instagram Live for our monthly OwlBabble live author chat with Janet Key!
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As always, thank you to the two incredible artists who make our monthly magazines simply stunning: Michelle Gray and Melanie Demmer!
And thank you to Cade from Hey Atlas Creative for creating our monthly theme reveal images every month.
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Pick up your own CAMPFIRE STORIES box in the OwlCrate Jr Shop now!
