i think mckenna ready to fly was also a good book. i liked the first book a little better though. mckenna became really good friends with her turor, josie. josie is not able to walk and is only able to get around in a wheelchair. mckenna helps Josie a lot and josie has always wanted to go horseback riding but with her disibility, Josie thinks its inpossible. Mckenna is very optimistic and helped josie become more confident and decided to try riding a horse. josie ended up doing pretty well on the horse. also, becuase of gymnasitcs, mckenna gets injured and tries to gain her strength and courgage in hopes to make it back to gymnastics to make it into the competitive team. i think that mary cassanova is a wonderful writer and some of her books are mainly about people with disabilities. (i think that the message the author is trying to get across is children/people with disabilites are just like everybody else) i would definitally recommend this to girls, especially gymnasts and people who find it hard to believe in themself. My only real problem with the McKenna books is that one of the big plot points involves McKenna's friend, Toulane, being rather snitty towards McKenna. Instead of ever talking to Toulane (whom I assumed was her friend outside of gymnastics)... McKenna just sort of wonders idly why Toulane might be upset with her when she shows interest in other things... usually after observing Toulane's incredibly overbearing mother be incredibly overbearing. :P Also, McKenna never seems to hang out with her friends outside of school or the gym (or, once it's introduced, the riding center) and never talks to Toulane about her sister's accident.Honestly, McKenna's kind of a bad friend in a lot of respects. Which isn't all that unusual in that she's at a certain stage in her life where a lot of things are going on and she's only so old so there's really only so much she can do up to a point. I'm not really sure younger kids would pick up on this or that it was intentional. Anyway, McKenna's books are cute and fairly solid, friendship not withstanding, and immensely readable.
What do You think about McKenna, Ready To Fly! (2011)?
These two books really left no impression on me. They just keep getting worse...
—mone
One more fun kids book. Now, back to the regularly scheduled reading material!
—saisha
i never got to read it so idk so lol
—Chesslover2000
