Charis Cotter says some of her earliest memories are of attending summer camp as a child in Ontario.

"We'd have dress-up nights and skits. I loved the skits. And singing, the singing was great. To me [it] was just magical," she said.

She draws on these magical memories for her latest novel The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall, which tells the story of a girl who goes to summer camp for the first time and encount…