I am looking for a book from the 1980s. It was a chapter book about a group of children who were sent to a summer camp, but discover while there that their parents were planning to abandon them there. They were a mix of troubled kids and good kids who had made mistakes or let their parents down recently. My copy was a mass market paperback that was green.
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The Grounding of Group Six?
Sounds like The Grounding Of Group Six by Julian Thompson. They were sent to boarding school, and taken out into the woods by a teacher.”Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive boarding school, five sixteen-year-olds are unaware that they have been sent there to be exterminated and that their teacher is a murderer for hire. “
Possibly “The Grounding of Group 6” by Julian F. Thompson?
The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian F. Thompson. They were sent to boarding school, but the first week was orientation, where they were sent to camp in the woods with an instructor who had been hired to kill them.
It could be The Grounding of Group Six by Julian F Thompson, or maybe something else by Thompson; he seems to like the “grownups getting rid of their kids” theme.
“The Grounding of Group Six” by Julian F. Thompson. From Wikipedia: “Five teens whose wealthy parents see them as embarrassments or worse are sent to an exclusive picturesque boarding school in Vermont—to be killed. … Lean and lanky, bitter Coke, who has trouble keeping his shirttails in, has packed cigarettes and white rum in his backpack. The more naïve, much shorter Sully hates his life in New York City and his mother’s dreadful ‘manfriend.’ Potty-mouthed and funny, Marigold is wise as well as cynical. She slept with one of her mother’s boyfriends.
Athletic, organized, popular Sarah is an over-achiever who was driven to cheat on an English paper. And Ludi, who can see things and hear sounds that are not ‘there,’ has ways and attitudes that just enrage her father.”
Not exact or even close but possible: Julian F. Thompson’s The Grounding of Group 6. The week before a private school begins, the students are divided into groups and go camping to bond. The school and parents agree that one particular group will not return. They’re not grounded for punishment but grounded by being dropped off a cliff.
Ah, I loved that book! The Grounding of Group 6, by Julian Thompson.
Possibly Julian Thompson’s ‘The Grounding of Group 6’; though the plot is a bit more extreme than your description. The youngsters, who fit your description, are sent to a boarding school, and discover that their parents are actually plotting to have them murdered. They escape to the woods, and seek to survive on their own – which might lead to the ‘abandoned at camp’ association.
This sounds like The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian F. Thompson, 1985. The parents have actually sent their troublemaking teenagers to the “exclusive” boarding school in order to have them killed.
Sounds like The Grounding Of Group Six…………try this one!
Sounds like The Grounding Of Group Six……….try this one!
Perhaps “The Grounding of Group 6” by Julian F. Thompson?
The poster found the answer in another forum, but the book is “The Grounding of Group 6”.
This sounds like ‘The Grounding of Group 6’ by Julian F. Thompson.
“Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive boarding school, five sixteen-year-olds are unaware that they have been sent there to be exterminated and that their teacher is a murderer for hire.”
You can read more about in on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grounding_of_Group_6