Breakfast Served Anytime

In Breakfast Served Anytime by Sarah Combs, our heroine, Gloria, is not sure how she feels about going to "geek" camp and she's not sure how she feels about leaving her father and her best friend, Carol, behind. Also, she's still dealing with the loss of her grandmother. Will going to "geek" camp change her and Carol's plans to move to and live in New York City while Carol pursues a career as a dancer and Gloria pursues a career as an actress?

Right from the beginning with the arrival of the mysterious blue butterflies the night before Gloria is scheduled to leave for camp, the camp experience promises to be exciting and transforming. It starts with Dr. Weston A. Xavier's class, Secrets of the Written Word. Gloria receives a letter asking her to please leave behind any personal computers and cellular telephones. Mr. X sends her and her classmates various clues that they must figure out. These clues lead them to Plato's Republic. Page 205: Allegory of the Cave, The Egg Drop Cafe (where breakfast is served anytime), and finally to an urn, as in Grecian Urn, as the Urn in Which the Remains of Thomas McGrath are Buried in a Crypt Beneath Morlan College's Notoriously Haunted McGrath Hall.

Gloria meets an interesting and unusual cast of characters who will challenge her thoughts, plans, and beliefs. There's Mason, aka the Mad Hatter, a boy wearing a floppy green top hat with a wide ribbon wrapped around the hat with a square of paper tucked into it. Gloria initially dislikes Mason, but he's in Secrets of the Written Word class with her, so there's no getting away from him. Is he more than he seems at first glance? Also, there's Jessica, Gloria's friendly, talkative, and bubbly roommate, whose mother, Diane, brings donuts on Parents' Day but refuses to let Jessica have any of them. There's Sonya, a former beauty pageant contestant, and Calvin, who wants to be a farmer and take the scholarship that the University of Kentucky offers to all the campers.

During her stay at camp, Gloria will grown, learn, and start to discover who she really is and what she really wants.