Pippa Passes Author:Scott Corbett, Judith Gwyn Brown (Illustrator) Accompanied only by her younger sister Lulie, eleven-year-old Meg Kendrick expects an unusually boring train ride to summer camp. But before Meg and Lulie can say Camp Hockawattamesset, they are up to their ears in excitement and intrigue. — In the train station, the sisters bump into Pippa Phillips, a famous child movie star running away f... more »rom an aunt and uncle who exploit her talents for their own profit. Immediately sympathetic, Meg and Lulie concoct a brilliant strategy to help Pippa; stage one is to disguise the young actress as just another camper, and to sneak her into Hockawattamesset.
What happens to the daring trio -- on the train and off -- causes hilarious complications, including a riotous ballet performance in the camp's Talent Show. This and other dramatic events are part of a very realistic conclusion from which Meg, Lulie, Pippa and certain adults begin to understand the more serious consequences of assuming responsibility.« less