{"product_id":"winter-camp-cold-9798235591721","title":"Winter Camp Cold","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lola Vance\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lola Vance\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lola Vance\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mysteries \u0026amp; Detective Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanuary 2028 brings the highly anticipated seventh-grade winter ski trip to a snow-blanketed lodge in M�trah�za. The journey begins with classic bus antics and Tommie immediately falling sideways into a sixty-centimeter snowbank upon arrival. Under the expert instruction of a grizzled guide named J�nos, Tommie quickly masters the slopes, but the real storm brewing is completely emotional. After a tearful phone call home, an over-emotional Tommie asks to read a single page of Lola's private diary . Lola carelessly agrees, unleashing a devastating fallout when Tommie reads a raw, honest entry out loud: Lola has written that Rae is 'emotionally deaf' and structurally exhausting to be friends with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply wounded, Rae freezes her text alerts, packs her toiletries, and moves out of Room Seven to sleep in an isolated single room for the rest of the weekend . As a heavy, agonizing silence paralyzes the remaining trio, Lola must navigate her guilt and learn how to communicate raw feelings to a friend's face rather than a notebook page. Guided by a supportive headmistress, Lola enters Room Eleven, discards her scripts, and delivers a vulnerable, out-loud apology that saves their bond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, an intriguing development tracks them on the snow slopes. A quiet, long-haired eighth-grader named Matthew (M�t�) T�th approaches Lola by the coat hooks with a message from his mother, an archive official. On their final morning, he hands her a stiff cream bookmark featuring a rare quote by Louisa Ivybridge from 1891. The bookmark had been hidden inside his mother's copy of the very same secret literature book Lola owns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Halloway intercepts the news and conducts a secret briefing, revealing that Matthew's mother is a deep-cover Circle ally who is using her son to signal that he is ready to enter their orbit. Although their operational pause is technically active, the quad chooses to complete a small act of kindness: walking through soft forest snow to visit Matthew's lonely, eighty-nine-year-old great-aunt Margit Halmos in her historic cottage. Returning home on the bus, Lola handles a tense phone call with her mother, realizing that her seventh-grade year has permanently accelerated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lola Vance","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968485736599,"sku":"9798235591721","price":664.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798235591721.webp?v=1782918213","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/winter-camp-cold-9798235591721","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}