FOOTPRINTS ON THE SAND

As a story of camp life this is excellent and meets a real need, as there is a scarcity of girl camp stories. The story pattern is a fairly familiar one:- a girl who feels herself a misfit (in this case a girl on scholarship from an orphanage) meets the enmity of the snobbish ""old girl"", makes good as a camper, and ends the Summer with a dramatic rescue which wins over her enemy. There's a thread of mystery, not very important; there's contact between the girls' camp and the boys' camp; there's achievement for Polish-born Marya in music, and this in turn leads to her dream- a real home for her little brother and herself. The Michigan background is fresh and gives the camp interest added impetus for the midwest (which must be surfeited with New England).