The Summer of Moonlight Secrets Review

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(More customer reviews)Unlikely friendships, secrets and intrigue converge one hot, lazy summer at The Meriwether, a famous antebellum hotel smack in the middle of Florida.
Allie Jo lives at the Meriwether because her parents manage the hotel. Chase is a guest while his father uses the hotel as a home-base for a series of travel articles about the Sunshine State. And Tara, a mysterious stranger, simply emerges from the water of Hope Springs one moonlit night. As the summer wears on and these three very different characters bond in friendship, Tara's secret is revealed. It's then that Allie Jo and Chase must figure out how to help Tara with a problem/situation that seems insurmountable.
The Summer of Moonlight Secrets is told in three unique voices. Author Danette Haworth has a knack for creating a strong sense of place with a setting that seems almost magical while still feeling within the reader's grasp. This middle grade novel is fresh and thoroughly enjoyable.
-- Reviewed by Michelle Delisle


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Greetings from Nowhere (Frances Foster Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)Amazing story with so many characters woven together to create a wonderful storyline. Although the characters were different ages all of them taught each other an important life lesson. I read it in one day and couldn't put it down! Tremendous read-suggested for read aloud in an intermediate classroom or even book clubs. It will lead to excellent conversations.

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Aggie isn’t expecting visitors at the Sleepy Time Motel in the Great Smoky Mountains. Since her husband died, she is all alone with her cat, Ugly, and keeping up with the bills and repairs has become next to impossible. The pool is empty, the garden is overgrown, and not a soul has come to stay in nearly three months. When she reluctantly places a For Sale ad in the newspaper, Aggie doesn’t know that Kirby and his mom will need a room when their car breaks down on the way to Kirby’s new reform school. Or that Loretta and her parents will arrive in her dad’s plumbing company van on a trip meant to honor the memory of Loretta’s birth mother. Or that Clyde Dover will answer the For Sale ad in such a hurry and move in with his daughter, Willow, looking for a brand-new life to replace the one that was fractured when Willow’s mom left. Perhaps the biggest surprise of all is that Aggie and her guests find just the friends they need at the shabby motel in the middle of nowhere.From an author long recognized for her true Southern voice and heartfelt characters, Greetings from Nowhere, with its four intertwining stories, brings Barbara O’Connor’s work to a new level of sophistication.

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Annika At Wilderness Hotel: The Finnish Spies Review

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(More customer reviews)This story caught my interest because I was so fascinated with the charactors in the book. If I think about it, I am alot like Annika because we both like adventures, except of course I can't see peoples auras. I wish I could though.
All preteen girls should read this book because it caught my interest and will probably catch yours.

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This is the first in the series about a Swedish girl whoimmigrates to America in 1882. Annika lives at Wilderness Hotel by ahuge lake on the Minnesota/Canadian border, in a place namedSettlement. She is small and very dark, much unlike her tall blondparents. The people of Settlement stare at her sometimes, and thismakes her uneasy, but Annika isn't unduly concerned about this becauseshe is loved very much by her Swedish Pappa and Momma, and besides,she has many good friends. But Annika keeps her secrets. She hasspecial powers and tells no one about them. She experiencesforetelling . . . that is the knowing what is going to happen inadvance of it happening. And she sees what she calls the "colors" ofpeople . . . we know of this as auras. Annika enjoys her powers. Sheused them to her advantage when getting to know new people. Her powersbecome more potent as she pays closer attention to them, trusts them,and she often uses them to guide her. Annika's family has begun awonderful new life. But all is not well in America. The past knows noborders. It follows Annika's Pappa across the sea from Sweden toAmerica. Then it falls to the "Little Black Haired General" to saveher family and the people of Settlement from evil forces that woulddestroy them all.

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Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief Review

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(More customer reviews)One day 12-year-old Sammy Keyes is dying of bordom when she decides to take a look through Grams binocolors. And what does she see across the street in the Heaven Hotel? A man with a brown beard with a pair of black gloves searching through someone's purse! When he looks up what does Sammy do...? Wave! After that she tells the police but they don't care much about her sighting. What does a super slueth such as Sammy Keyes do in this situation? FIND THAT THIEF! This a must read which will surprise at the end more than your little brother can scare the daylights out of you.

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Grams always told her those binoculars would get her into trouble. Now Sammy's witnessed a crime at the Heavenly Hotel-a light fingered thief stealing $4,000 from Madame Nashira, the astrologer with the fire-hazard hair-do. Thing is, while she was watching him, he was watching her, too...Fast-paced and funny, packed with menacing suspects and clever clues, the Sammy Keyes mysteries keep you quessing to the last riveting page.

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(More customer reviews)I teach fourth grade and after I read Sammy Keyes and the hotel thief I asked one of my students to read it to see if she liked the book as much as I did. From Cecelia-10 years old: Cecelia was drawn in to the character of Sammy because she felt sympathy for her and she enjoyed the mystery. Wendlelin Van Draanen pulls Cecelia into the mystery by creating a web of obstacles for Sammy to contend with before she can solve the mystery. Cecelia believes that anyone her age would enjoy reading about Sammy Keyes and her mysteries. The action, danger, and the mystery keep her reading 160 pages in 3 quick days. Any book that is 160 pages long that can keep a ten year old interested enough to read is a great book. Cecelia and I would recommend this book to anyone ages 9 to 90.

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