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“I can see rope nets, cable bridges, a wall of logs, things to crawl over, and things to crawl under. ‘Somehow,’ I say, ‘I can’t see Ms. Radcliff breaking any world records on that stuff.”
David Metzenthen
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Adrian goes out there
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rope nets
cable bridges
wall of logs
to crawl over
concepts
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“The great outdoors!′ says Mopssy. ‘I’m going to climb cliffs and swim rivers. Ms. Radcliff will think I’m a real action hero. Ms. Radcliff is my special math teacher. Moppsy wants to impress her. Well, Moppsy wants to impress everyone.”
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“Next, I pack my backpack and wonder what lies ahead for the thirty of us from Blue Water Bay School. Outdoor camps are supposed to be character-building. Outdoors camp are supposed to improve teamwork.”
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“Mr. Radcliff has red hair that she coils on the top of her head. She wears glasses, too. She’s not my idea of what an outdoors superstar looks like _but then I’ve been known to be wrong once or twenty times before.”
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“We set off for Camp Rolling River in a silver bus. I sit in the backseat with my friends, Moppsy, Marco-man, Phil, and Aysha. We’re all hapier than usual because we’re going off to camp, and we’re missing a week of school.”
Moppsy
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“The first thing we have to do in our group of five is to think up a name for ourselves. This is to develop teamwork, I think. ‘The Destroyers,’ suggests Moppsy. ‘Maybe not,’ sayd Ms Radclif. She doesn’t seem to have any hiking boots, either.”
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“The other teams watch us. Someone from the Wolves yells out. ‘You Parrots have got no style! Look at your shoes, ya losers!’ I look at my sneakers. Yes, they have holes in them, but so what?”
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“None of us even have hiking boots. We’re all wearing sneakers, apart from Marco, who’s wearing rubber thongs. Camp Rolling River is set by an inlet where a river meets the sea. There’s plenty of calm water to swim in. and paddle canoes in, and there are lots of trees.”
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“I like the Screaming Parrots part,′ she says, ‘but I think we should forget the South America bit.’ I look at Moopsy, and he looks at me. We laugh. Ms. Radcliff is radical! ‘The Screaming Parrots it is then,’ says Mopps. ‘Fantastic!”
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“I stay out in the surf all Sunday morning. I stay out in the surf all Sunday afternoon. I spend nearly all Sunday in the water, because next week I won’t be able to surf at all.”

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