Camp Pageturner: Summer Reading & Writing at the CLC

Camp Pageturner: Summer Reading & Writing at the CLC
Photo college of different students participating in activities at Camp Pageturner

Camp Pageturner - Summer 2026

Enrollment is expected to open on Thursday, January 15. 

At Camp Pageturner, children spend each week exploring their passions through a literacy lens. Each day includes all the summer fun you’d expect, like field games or trips to the pool. It also includes lots of opportunities to have fun reading and writing.

Throughout the week, campers take part in fun and motivating reading and writing activities based on that week’s theme. Participants read books, use their imaginations, and take part in all sorts of creative writing.

2026 programming includes:

  • Science Theme Collaboration with the Leitzel Center: Now, your child can explore inventing, earth science, and math AND reading and writing–all wrapped up in a typical summer camp experience! See the Session Descriptions below for more information on the sessions that are part of this collaboration.
  • 1-1 Literacy Support: Want individual reading/writing instruction for your child? Register for our Pageturner 1:1 Literacy Support option. Students will meet with a CLC Program Leader for 4 30-minute sessions during camp hours. This option costs $60/week and will appear after adding a camp session to your shopping cart. A student must be enrolled in the corresponding week of Camp Pageturner to participate. 
  • Camp Pageturner Comic-Con: This summer, our mini-week (June 29-July 2) will have a Comic-Con theme - think making and reading comics, creating costumes, dressing up as and creating stories for your favorite characters!

Families are invited to attend a showcase for performance at 4pm each week on Friday. Camp will still end at the regular time, and it will be recorded if you cannot attend.

Camp Pageturner is held at Murkland Hall, 15 Library Way, Durham, NH. Details regarding drop off locations, times, and other information is sent from program staff via email to enrolled participant parents/guardians before the session start date. Please be sure the email address provided during enrollment is that of a parent/legal guardian, not the participating student.

Camp Pageturner - Summer 2026

Sessions Theme Dates Days & Times Grades
(entering Fall 2025)		 Cost Registration Close Date
(unless full earlier)
Session 1   June 22-26 Mon-Fri, 8:15-4:30pm Gr 1-6 $310 June 7
Session 2: Pageturner Comic-Con Comics & Cosplay June 29-July 2 Mon-Thurs, 8:15am-12pm Gr 1-6 $250 June 14
Session 3: YIP, YIP, Hooray! Inventing July 6-10 Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm Gr 1-6 $310 June 21
Session 4   July 13-17 Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm Gr 1-6 $310 June 28
Session 5: GLOBE-al Nature Environment July 20-24 Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm Gr 1-6 $310 July 5
Session 6: Mathemagicians Math & Magic July 27-31 Mon-Fri, 8:15am-4:30pm Gr 1-6 $310 July 12

Review the blocks below for information and instructions on Enrolling, Session Descriptions, CampDoc, and Travel. 

For more information and program questions, contact: literacy.center@unh.edu

For the program website: Community Literacy Center

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Click the '+' on the block on the right to enroll. If using a mobile device, the block may appear on the bottom of the page. Review the Online Registration Instructions before enrolling for the best outcome.

Family Accounts are recommended for enrolling multiple children from one family in any UNH Youth Program. If you already have an account in our system, you will be asked to log into either a Family or Student Account after adding the program to your shopping cart. Be sure to use the username and password for the type of account you wish to log into. We recommend attempting to log into the Student or Family account before enrollment opens as this will minimize difficulty and time while enrolling. Email youth.programs@unh.edu if you require assistance recovering your account information. Do not create a new account if you have one already.

If you don't have an account already, you can set up an account at any time, even before you begin the registration process. When you create a new account, the email address provided in the profile should be that of a parent/legal guardian, not the participating student. Review the Online Registration Instructions before creating a new account.

Session 1: Play on Words (Theme – Playwriting)

Love to dress up in costumes and act out stories? Join us for a week of play-writing, set design, costume-making, acting, and more!

Session 2: Pageturner Comic-Con (Theme - Comics, Graphic Novels, Heroes, and Cosplay)

Suit up, power up, and step into your favorite worlds! Read and write your own comic books, create original characters, design costumes and props, and bring epic adventures to life in Pageturner’s action-packed Comic-Con week.

Session 3: YIP, YIP, Hooray! (Theme - Inventing)

What will you invent? Staff from the Robert H. Rines Young Inventors' Program (YIP) will join us as we develop ideas, solve problems, build inventions, and present our projects! 

Session 4: GLOBE-al Nature Writers (Theme – Environment)

Join us as we partner with GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment), an international program that promotes scientific literacy and builds connections between people passionate about the environment. We will explore areas like College woods as we conduct experiments, collect data, and share with a global community of environmental scientists and scientists-to-be.

Session 5: Write, Camera, Action (Theme – Film)

At Write, Camera, Action, we will spend the week making a movie. You will learn about writing a screenplay, producing a film, and more! On the last day of camp, we’ll have our own screening.

Session 6: Mathemagicians (Theme – Math & Magic)

Collaboration with the Leitzel Center! Dust off your top hat and magic wand - math and magic go hand-in-hand. Join us for fun open-ended math tasks, math-related magic, and creating our own magic show.

CampDoc: UNH has partnered with CampDoc to quicken the enrollment process. Enrollments and payments will still be made here through our current enrollment system, but no registration questions will be required at that time. Within a few days of enrolling, the email provided in the student or family account will receive an email prompting completion of the registration questions.

It is important that a parent/guardian responds to the CampDoc email and completes the registration questions promptly. Families who enrolled a child in a UNH Youth Program in Summer 2023 or after will likely already have a CampDoc account. Even if the student already has a CampDoc account, a parent/guardian should log into the student's account to review and complete any necessary questions for a specific program or year.

All registration questions must be 100% complete in CampDoc before a student can attend a youth program.

For more information, including the CampDoc Support Line, review our CampDoc page.

The UNH Community Literacy Center is located in Suite 109 of Morrill Hall, 62 College Rd., Durham, NH.

Additional information, including check in location and times are sent to participants by the program staff prior to the session start date.