I recommend this series to all girls I know and even adults!
This book focuses mainly on fifth grader Batty with some chapters devoted to her step brother Ben. Ms. Birdsall captures the pull a fifth grader feels between childhood and growing up and unrelenting emotions.
Batty discovers several things about herself-that she can earn money, that she can sing, that Nick is good at rescuing her and bringing her home and that her mother sacrificed her own life so Batty can live. . . .and that secrets and misunderstandings rot at one's soul and dissipate joy but family, honesty and clarification can revive one again.
Although this series will naturally appeal to girls, Ms. Birdsall includes a boy character in each book that just might do the trick in enticing boys. I want to read the series to my two boys.
***Highly, highly recommend.
Already looking forward to Book #5-the final one!
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