In this qualitative case study, I examined a local summer literacy camp in which graduate student tutors tutored elementary and middle school students in reading and writing. I focused the study on the primary stakeholders in the summer literacy camp: �������������������������������������� ts, and the course instructor/camp director because their voices are limited in the current literature. In this Community of Interest Summer Literacy Camp, the graduate student tutors moved from a position of fear and trepidation to a position of empowerment in which they hoped to make changes in their classrooms, schools, and communities. The tutees learned to appreciate the tutoring program and some tutees began to understand tutoring could be an enrichment experience rather than only a remedial experience. There was limited parental participation in the tutoring program and that may have hindered a richer experience in which parents learned strategies to help their child/children excel in reading and writing.