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Posted: July 14 2008 at 2:15pm | IP Logged Quote mom2mpr
Has anyone read this? I don't have time to and ds wants to read it. Looking for a review.
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Posted: July 14 2008 at 2:30pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G
We did this as our last read-aloud with my 5, 8 and 9 yo kids. They all loved it! But we were big fans of the first one.

The story is about the aunt trying to get the widowed father to date again after 5 years and the girls try to stop it (thru less than honorable means). Great book for talking about sneakiness, lying and ultimate good ... the book tends toward a "end justifying the means" take on things but this gave me a great chance to explain that this isn't a good thing to do and discussin of how things could have been handled better.

I love the way the author writes -- her characters "sound" right, if you know what I mean!

Does that help a bit?

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Posted: July 14 2008 at 4:18pm | IP Logged Quote mom2mpr
Yes, thank you that helps. Guess I will put it in our read aloud, together, pile. I was wondering as I paged through it whether I could set him loose or read it with him.
Thank you so much for the review....
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