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| Grade 4-7 The characters from Polly Horvath's My One Hundred Adventures (2008) return in this charming sequel (2010, both Schwartz Wade). Jane Fielding and her family have been living in Canada, about as far away from their beach home in Massachusetts as you can get. Jane's new step-father Ned is baffled when he loses his job teaching French a language he doesn't actually speak ("I always looked on it as a kind of a frill"). They decide to move back to their beach home, but detours slow their return. Ned discovers that his brother has left a suitcase full of cash in his care, so he piles the family into the ancient car to return the money. They end up on a ranch in Nevada, and Jane develops her first serious crush on a young ranch hand. The plot is slight, but the language and characters are delicious. Becca Battoe's youthful narration allows listeners to see everything from Jane's perspective, and her gift of timing and inflection produce many laugh-out-loud moments. A delightful story. |
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| I love children's literature and read along with my kids. We picked this up from the library's "new book" section and my daughter (entering sixth grade) said she couldn't get into it (very unusual for her), so I had a go.
The protagonist here is Jane, a teen with 3 younger siblings, who is traveling with her poet mother and unconventional stepfather Ned after he has been fired from his job as a French teacher (he can't speak French). They set out from Canada to Massachusetts but get seriously sidetracked after ending up with a bag of illegally-obtained money left for Ned by his flaky magician brother. Jane ruminates on who her father might be, and who the fathers of each of her siblings might be, based on family histories of mental illness. She observes the interactions of Ned with his mother and three sisters, none of whom he has had any contact with in over 20 years. Two significant characters, at the end of the book, turn out to be untrustworthy in major ways.
Are the uncertainty, instability, and disordered family relationships supposed to appeal to pre-teens who are searching for identity? The themes here seemed much more suited to an adult novel. The characters, eccentric as they are, were well drawn and engaging, but I'm glad my daughter missed this one. |
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