Bøker av Jay Gilbert

**Winner of the 2012 Society of Camp Directors Writing Award**The Cabin Path is a leadership book that will inspire camp counsellors and young leaders to think more consciously about the everyday leadership lessons camp presents them. While the book takes place in a summer camp setting, it is really a life leadership book and is a great resource for all readers with relevant real-life takeaways.If you've had your own summer camp experience, you'll feel like you're back at camp reading The Cabin Path. If you've never been to camp before, the book highlights the positive impacts of the camp experience and will leave you wanting to go to camp next summer!

There's a Pony in that Car is a collection of crazy, short stories about growing up in the 60s on a farm in Minnesota-All true with a bit of creative filling in where memory doesn't serve. Our father kept us five boys out of trouble (mostly) with a host of daily chores caring for our animals- If it mooed, clucked or quacked, we had it. Funny and heartwarming, these stories will make you laugh, cry, and reflect on your own childhood memories. Reader Review: Wendy Moyle.5 stars. Colorful and fun!Patty P.5 stars Great reading!Delightful, funny, poignant, and a joy to read, the author gives us snippets of his life as one of five brothers growing up on a farm in Minnesota.Edee.5 stars. Fun-filledHilarious, uplifting and heartwarming are a few of the words to describe the short stories adorning this book. The author certainly lived an unusual life growing up in Duluth, Minnesota. His stories and anecdotes are so articulately described. Vividly, he sets the stage for each of his stories which are funny, outrageous and true.

Helgi feels trapped. And like any good prisoner, he thinks about escape. Every day. While dutifully working for his parents in the Florida Motel, he desperately craves a normal life. But there is nothing normal about the motel biz. It's more akin to a state of insanity!Attending college at the local university is his path to normalcy, where scantily clad coeds, a raucous Halloween Ball and the hidden "Stacks" of the old stone library provide much-needed distractions, if not peace of mind, from crazy events and characters at the motel.When he meets a girl--the girl--on campus, Helgi bumbles his way through his first real love. Threatened by a frat boy with GQ looks and money, he seeks sage advice from a surprising source.From prostitutes to creepy professors, Helgi faces threats to him, his family, and his relationship with the love of his life. Will he get the girl and find normalcy or remain a prisoner of the Florida Motel?