2010
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Who's Who
Cal (Camp Half-Blood and Camp Kane)
Cal's heading to college after this summer, so this might be his last summer with us. Last year he proved to be a champion chariot racer!
Diane (Camp Half-Blood, Camp Kane & American Girls Camp)
Diane owns a bookstore. She likes kids and she likes to read. She likes to teach camps that center on great children’s books. She believes that all kids - not just her own - should spend their summers in a bookstore.
Justin (The Name of This Camp is Secret & Boo-yah for Boys! Camp)
Justin Colussy-Estes has been designing games, doodling, making mazes, trying to learn magic and secrets and codes since he was your age. He made our MythoMagic card game for Camp Half-Blood. He loves creating cyphers, firing water rockets into the air, skipping rocks, telling stories, and plotting to take over the world.
Krista (Campology, American Girls Camp, and Goody for Girls! Camp)
Growing up with three brothers, our assistant manager Krista Gilliam learned to hold her own with the boys and represent girls everywhere from an early age. She likes running around, asking lots and lots questions, and getting her hands dirty with crafty projects, and she'll be doing lots of these things during all the camps she's running. You can find her reading at storytime every Tuesday morning, growling like a lion, bonding with babies, and getting fashion tips from skirt-clad little girls.
Lew
(Chess Camp)
Lew Martin
has taught chess at various schools in DeKalb County, including Fernbank Elementary, since 1995. His teams have captured the Georgia Chess Association’s state championships four times and has placed in 2nd or 3rd on seven additional occasions. Fernbank’s 2002 team captured the K-5 National Championships and the school’s 2008 K-1 team finished in 3rd place at the 2008 Nationals. Lew is a certified USCF instructor.
Marcy (The Name of This Camp is Secret, Campology, & Camp Half-Blood)
Marcy knows more about more different stuff than just about anyone you will ever meet. It's almost scary!
Matt (Camp Half-Blood, Camp Kane, and Booyah for Boys! Camp)
Matt Lathrop grew up Iowa, but moved to Atlanta with his wife about four years ago, and has been teaching elementary school in Atlanta ever since. He spends just about every Saturday morning for the last three and a half years "working" at Little Shop of Stories, and is excited to be a part of camps because he is constantly amazed by the crazy things that boys do. He'll have a blast helping them come up with even more ridiculous activities.
Quinn (Chess Camp)
A 2008 graduate of Druid Hills High School, Quinn Shallenberger was a member of Fernbank Elementary School's 2002 National Championship team, and has been on four state championship teams in elementary and middle school. His current USCF rating is 1486.
Terra (Creative Writing Camp & Goody for Girls! Camp)
Terra isn't just a great bookseller at Little Shop of Stories. She has also been a writer since she learned how to in first grade! She has a master's degree in Creative Writing from Florida State University, has taught writing classes, is the author of Pure, and, due in May, After the Kiss. More than that though she is crazy excited about getting to spend a whole week with a bunch of young writers, and helping them grow their skills and ideas.
Vicki (Camp Half-Blood and Camp Kane)
Vicky Alvear Shecter is the author of ALEXANDER THE GREAT ROCKS THE WORLD and is a docent at the Carlos Museum.