George Hawkins - It comes from within When George Hawkins thinks of summer vacation, he thinks of one endless boring camp after the next. This year would be different, though. George's birthday and the beginning of summer vacation were the same day Sweet He had never dreamed he would be going to a summer camp in space on a faraway station filled with summer campers like himself. His mom rambled on about her first camp that morning and all George heard was "blah blah this and blah blah that." Now at Jupiter station on Ganymede moon, he wished he had paid better attention. It will take all of his wits to save the other campers trapped in the caves, rescue the senior Viceroy and save the station from a Zeleion invasion. It is on a space station far from Earth that George will learn the value of true friendship and a destiny formed eons ago for him... if he can only survive the adventure For anyone who ever suffered through a boring summer camp with bad weather, too many bugs and too little to do that was fun, L. A. Bissonnette has written the perfect antidote. The George Hawkins Space Camper series is a young adult novel about a 13-year-old boy's exciting adventures at a very special summer camp- it's at Jupiter Station on Ganymede moon. Initially unaware that he's being sent to a camp in outer space, George's realization that the plane taking him to camp is really a space ship is the beginning of this entertaining jaunt into another world. At the space camp, George's group of fellow campers is a diverse collection of girls and boys- each with a special talent- who manager to get themselves into and out of scrapes with aliens and odd life forms, and who eventually become unlikely heroes, saving the station from a Zeleion invasion. The book is a lively and fun read with a few good lessons tucked in for the young reader- one of the main ones: Listen to your mom when she's telling you stuff George Hawkins Space Camper is the first in a series of space camp adventure books for 3rd grade - teens. Look for more books in the series.