Mystery @ Elf Camp

Written by Christopher Scanlan and Katharine Fair

Illustrated by V. L. Totire

From the creators of the nostalgic Christmas tale, The Holly Wreath Man, comes Mystery @ Elf Camp, a modern day holiday fantasy about and for kids. A serial newspaper novel in fourteen installments, 750 words each. Mystery @ Elf Camp" is designed to run December 9-22 and includes two four-color illustrations for the chapters that fall on Sundays.

Mystery at Elf Camp is a comedy fantasy/adventure about three teens who discover that Santa's workshop is staffed not by elves but by kids in trouble and must find out who's sabotaging Christmas so they can solve their own problems by helping Santa with his.

Plot/Synopsis

Meghan's family is on the verge of losing their home. Nicole's parents are splitting up. Jack's Mom died. A month before Christmas, a dove delivers each of them an invitation to Elf Camp. The three troubled teens make a shocking discovery: Santa's Workshop has gone high-tech, staffed not by little men in pointy shoes, but by kids who are given a chance to solve their own problems by helping Santa with his. This season, someone is bent on sabotaging the holiday, hacking into the "Naughty and Nice" database, overloading the circuitry that runs the Robo-Elves toy assembly line and, worst of all, tampering with the GPS chips in reindeer noses. Rudolph's is a bright blue!!! The unlikely trio must team up to solve the mystery at Elf Camp in time to save Christmas, and in the process help their families heal.

Samples

Santa’s new helpers: Kids, robots and Rudolph the blue-nosed reindeer.

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