Camp Can't: The Complicated Life of Claudia Cristina Cortez

Diane G. Gallagher lives in Florida with her husband, Marty Burke, five dogs, three cats, and a cranky parrot. A professional folk musician in the 1970s, Gallagher also wrote songs and dabbled in whimsical fantasy art in the 1980s. She is best known for her hand-colored print series, "Woof: The House Dragon", and she won a Hugo for Best Fan Artist 1988. "The Alien Dark" (TSR1990) was her first published novel. Gallagher has written over 70 titles, including books in the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Charmed", Smallville", and "Star Trek" series.

Including picture books in sunshine hues, zestfully illustrated chapter books, and fast-reading novels, these breezy offerings for elementary students describe a time-honored summertime tradition with humor, imagination, and insight. Theres plenty of sin --School Library Journal

Claudia was beginning to think that nothing would go right that last summer at camp; the school bully was there, the self-centered Anna was in her cabin, and already shed failed the swimming test twice. Without it, she couldnt return as a camp counselor --Pennsylvania School

Claudia Cristina Cortez is a single-minded seventh grader. In Camp Cant, she is determined to become a junior counselor. She is great at managing bratty kids, peers, icky bugs, and her friends fear of horses, but she really struggles on the long swim. T --School Library Journal