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Fresh mountain air, loyal friends, and something unexplained: summer camp holds more than a holiday for the Motor Maids.
In Katherine Stokes’s The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp, a group of lively girls carries its love of adventure into the mountains. These friends enjoy motor cars, the open road, and one another’s company. Now a summer camp gives them a new setting for outdoor days and a mystery to follow.
Friendship sits at the heart of this children’s adventure. The girls’ loyalty shapes what they do, while curiosity draws them toward a puzzle beyond their usual camp routine. The pleasures of mountain life share the page with the excitement of discovery, in a story where freedom for girls still feels like something worth celebrating.
What you’ll discover
- A mountain summer Step away from familiar surroundings into fresh air, outdoor days, and the pleasures of camp.
- Friends who stay close Meet girls whose loyalty to one another gives their adventures a warm, steady heart.
- A puzzle to follow Let something unexplained stir your curiosity alongside the friends at Sunrise Camp.
- Freedom on the horizon Share the spirit of girls who love motor cars, open roads, and adventures together.
- An old-fashioned welcome Enjoy a gentle story that makes room for companionship as well as mystery.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this book if you like warm friendship stories, summer camps, mountain trails, cheerful old cars and gentle mysteries, and if you love a tale where kindness and a good joke solve most problems.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Billie makes room for camp life
- The mountain trail disappears beneath them
- Courage comes from unexpected people
- Camp life mixes kindness with mishaps
- Wrong turns bring new friends
- Rumor puts Phoebe in danger
- Quiet trust gives kindness its strength
- Humor and danger share the road
- Friendship carries more than fine clothes
Who’s who
- Billie CampbellAn eighteen-year-old who drives the Comet, makes plans for everyone and wants to help Phoebe and her father.
- Miss Helen CampbellBillie's gentle sixty-year-old cousin, who dislikes camping but proves braver than anyone expects.
- PhoebeA barefoot mountain girl with no surname who has read a few books many times and wants to protect her father.
- Dr. William HumeA kind hiking surgeon who cares for Miss Campbell and wants to help Phoebe's father regain his memory.
- Richard HookA witty traveler with a horse-drawn van who dreams of owning a farm and has a boss who sometimes calls him away.
- Nancy BrownBillie's fashion-loving friend, who wants her mountain outfit to look perfect and keeps laughing at herself.
- Mrs. LupoThe camp cook, who rarely speaks, hates Phoebe and struggles with a violent temper.
- Alberdina SchoenbachlerA cheerful Swiss-German maid who wants an easy day, makes costly mistakes and sometimes shows surprising nerve.
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The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp
by Katherine Stokes · 1914
Friends lose their way in a bog, and a silent mountain girl leads them toward a cabin where a zither plays.
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Why would anyone sign up for a camp called Sunrise, when the sun hides behind a mountain until the morning is half gone? Billie Campbell has an answer, and she needs it, because her cousin Helen will not budge.
The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp at a glance
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- 1914by Katherine Stokes
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Billie talks her cousin into camp life
The book opens with a battle of wits in a drawing room. Miss Helen Campbell, a dainty sixty-year-old spinster, hears the words Sunrise Camp and imagines tents, mosquitoes and tin cups. Her young cousin Billie, eighteen and full of plans, answers every worry one at a time.
Billie explains that the camp is a log house with one great room, a screened sleeping porch, and water piped from the mountain top. Her cousin groans at each detail, but when Billie says the family will be together, the little lady softens and agrees.
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Stokes, Katherine. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-motor-maids-at-sunrise-camp.
Stokes, K. (2026). The motor maids at Sunrise Camp. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-motor-maids-at-sunrise-camp (Original work published 1914)
Stokes, Katherine. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-motor-maids-at-sunrise-camp.
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What is The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp about?
It follows four girl friends and two boy friends who spend a summer at a log camp in the Adirondack Mountains. They meet a mountain girl named Phoebe, face angry villagers, and try to solve the mystery of her father's lost memory.
Who are the Motor Maids?
They are Billie Campbell, Nancy Brown, Mary Price and Elinor Butler, four friends from West Haven who travel in Billie's blue car, the Comet. Their earlier adventures include trips across the plains, Florida and Japan.
Who is Phoebe in the story?
Phoebe is an eighteen-year-old mountain girl who lives in a small cabin with her father. She has no surname, has read a handful of books until she knows them by heart, and relies on a quiet faith.
The author
Katherine Stokes
Children's fiction pseudonym
Katherine Stokes wrote the Motor Maids series of adventure stories for young readers, which follows four girl friends and their car. This volume refers back to the first book, The Motor Maids' School Days, and shows the author's world of early twentieth century motoring, camps, telegrams and mountain summers.
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