I wanted to like this book more, but I just didn't. The beginning started off very well. Penelope Lumley, a fifteen year old graduate from Swanburne Academy is on her way to, hopefully a new job. Penelope is very nervous, this being her first job interview. When she arrives at Ashton Place, she i...
Trying to get away from the temptation to listen to pop music in the car, we started listening to audio books instead.Our kids so enjoyed this selection, that they actually begged to go for rides in the car. With all of the twists and turns in this story, it was a lot of fun to hear my kids tryi...
This book picks right up where the prequel finished. Wasting no time, the incorrigibles and Miss Lumley are off to London for more adventures as well as more mystery. Even more questions and clues are brought up in the book than the previous, but hardly anything is answered. Some of the asides we...
OK--it's not earth-shaking and it's not going to change your life, but it is witty, warm, and a scream. There are some simple undercurrents that reinforce the values of friendship and what home really means. Also, I love stories that walk me around London. I've got to go back and read the 1st boo...
Book starts out slow and almost dull and boring, yet is the backdrop to almost explaining and understanding the world that Jessamine lives in. This comes into full view when Weed arrives on their doorstep and Jessamine nurses him back to good health and becomes his confidant. This two grow closer...
It was a great and exciting book to read. Sadly disappointing.Slow.Nothing to hold on to: found no grip.
At the midpoint of this series the questions are still adding up and very few if any are being answered which is starting to be a bit tiresome, I'm hoping we will begin to get more than questions in the next volume. I also feel that while book one's story was fairly capable of standing on its own...
This is a review of the first 4 books of this series, taken as a whole. They each felt like a very short, incomplete book on their own - like sections of a larger novel. Although Wood still did a great job of wrapping up current action and mysteries in each book, while leading you towards more qu...
Being sent to your room is one thing. But being sent to another country? Morgan's boyfriend dumped her on the last day of school - it seemed the only thing to do was to hack off her hair and dye the stubble orange. Unfortunately, Morgan's parents freaked and decided a change of scenery would d...
it is very, very cute. it is about the X factor (love), teenage girls (sex kittens), teenage boys (dawgs), and the private high school they attend (the pound). the book focuses on a science fair project about the X factor...what it is, how it works, how someone knows if they have it, etc. the gir...
Emily and Phillip have been to see their favorite musical, Aurora (fictional), over a hundred times, borrowing money from Emily's Grandma Rose every weekend so they can stand in line to get the rush tickets. And then they find out that their show is closing.For the most part, I get these kids. Th...
The path was uphill and slippery with sand, so we had to pay attention to each step we took. Maybe it was just the everything-looks-creepier-at-night factor, but it seemed to me as if the surrounding shrubs and tall grasses had doubled in size since we’d come down to the beach. I was getting brea...
All I had to do was convince the gnome. This would be so much easier if you guys were still in the garage, I thought, late that night, as I snuck across the yard with a flashlight from the kitchen junk drawer. Professional closet declutterers like my mom shouldn’t even have junk drawers, it occur...
We pack the wagons before dawn, travel all day, and stop at a roadside inn at night. The inns are humble, and I sleep in my clothes to avoid flea bites. Day by day my false identity has taken shape. I have told those who insist on knowing that my trade is fine embroidery and my finished pieces ha...
THE INCORRIGIBLES WERE AMAZED. HAD their panorama achieved such verisimilitude that one of its inhabitants had sprung to life, complete with the knowledge of how to play the fiddle? Yet none of them could remember drawing Emperor Nero, the famously tyrannical Roman emperor who was said to have se...