![]() Kids always leave Camp Half-Blood with books last year, campers received the new edition of Robert Graves’s The Greek Myths, with an introduction by Riordan. For the first four years of Camp Half-Blood, Riordan visited the camp. Six week-long sessions cater to nine- to 13-year-olds, and one, the first to sell out every year, is for 13- to 18-year-olds. We run parallel to the books.” Some 700 kids attended a week of the camp during July and August 2013, and BookPeople expects that many again this year. “We’re not pretending we’re somewhere else. “Rick set us up as the Austin branch of Camp Half-Blood,” said Topher Bradfield, BookPeople’s children’s outreach coordinator and literary camp director. I’m still looking for my Candor outfit, which will be black and white because they see everything as black or white.”Īnderson was inspired to launch the camp not only by the novel, but also by the positive experience of BookPeople in Austin, Texas, which this summer will hold its eighth annual Camp Half-Blood, named after the demigods of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. “I have a gray dress for Abnegation, a really cool black T-shirt for Dauntless, and a flow-y tank top that’s in a mustard yellow for Amity because their colors are earthy colors. “I’ve been scouring Goodwill racks,” she said. For the choosing ceremony on the final day, they will draw blood – but, as Anderson reassured PW, it will be fake.Ĭamp may be two months away, but Taylor Gaul, an Elmhurst College sophomore at who will be one of four camp counselors, is already preparing. “We won’t be climbing to the top of a Ferris wheel,” Anderson said. “We’re not going to be playing with knives or guns!”Ĭampers, like Dauntless initiates, will play capture the flag – but less dramatically than in the novel and in the film, which was released on March 21. Dauntless faction zip#“We’re not going to zip line from the top of the Hancock,” Anderson explained, referencing a Dauntless pastime. ![]() On Amity day, for example, organic farmers will talk about sustainability and bring their locally grown food for campers to eat.Īlas for daredevils, camp activities, which are still being finalized, will not mimic those of the book exactly. She also hopes Roth, who liked the camp idea when Anderson mentioned to her last July at the ALA annual conference, will stop by (“We don’t have a definitive ‘yes’ yet,” she clarified).Įven snacks will fit into the spirit of the factions. Anderson expects Charbonneau and Lunetta, who are Illinois-based, to visit the camp. We do not believe that any other virtue is more important than bravery.In addition to devoting one day to each faction, campers will also spend part of each day discussing other dystopian novels, such as Joelle Charbonneau’s Testing trilogy and Demitria Lunetta’s In the After series.We do not believe that we should be allowed to stand idly by.We do not believe that learning to master violence encourages unnecessary violence.We do not believe in empty heads, empty mouths, or empty hands.We do not believe that silence is useful.We do not believe in living comfortable lives.We believe that pain and death are better than cowardice and inaction because we believe in action. ![]() We believe, not just in bold words but in bold deeds to match them.We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.We believe in facing that fear no matter what the cost to our comfort, our happiness, or even our sanity.We believe in acknowledging fear and the extent to which it rules us.We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.We believe in freedom from fear, in denying fear the power to influence our decisions.We believe that justice is more important than peace.We believe that peace is hard-won, that sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. Dauntless Manifesto We believe that cowardice is to blame for the world’s injustices. Anyone not in the top five is likely to get a job guarding the fence. Final rankings are used to determine jobs. Also, Dauntless has the toughest initiation process. Only the top ten initiates are eligible to join Dauntless. They need to calm themselves down as quickly as possible. Mental: The remaining initiates are put into their fear landscapes. No one is eliminated after this round, but the times are considered in the final rankings.ģ. Initiates try to get the fastest time possible. Emotional: The remaining initiates need to face their fears in a simulation using the Dauntless serum. 4 members are eliminated after this round.Ģ. Physical: initiates have to fight each other and learn to use guns and knives with accuracy. The initiation process consists of three stages.ġ. ![]()
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