Lunch Box Dream is an historical fiction book that is intended for children between the ages of ten and fourteen years old. The book is about a boy names Bobby and his family experiencing some uncomfortable situations on their trip to take their Grandmother back to Florida, but they also stop along the way to visit Civil War battlefields. Tony Abott does a good job bringing conflicts of the 1950’s to life and describing how people feel in these situations. The plot of the story takes a little while to unwind completely since he has put a few different topics in the book but once it does it makes a for a good book. It was sometimes confusing to me because it was spoken in both 1st and 3rd person. I feel some children would enjoy the book however it may be hard for them to really relate. I didn't care for this book. First off, there's no way that a kid in the 1950's that is as naive as to call an African American "chocolate" is going to have these indepth thoughts about beauty and death. The mother was strange and it was so obvious that she gave her son the respect that she would have given to her husband. And what was the Grandmother's role in all of this? I didn't get the numbering system for the chapters, I didn't like the two "stories".
It wasn't bad it wasn't great either. I think the multiple narrators was a disservice to the story.
—oceancallsme
Mopey, scattered, not much of a payoff at the end.
—dancer
Didn't Really like this book
—Dementiaheart
