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REVIEW of Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo

Louisiana Elefante has been torn away from everything she knows. In the middle of the night, her granny bundles her in the car to take her across the state line from Florida into Georgia, muttering dire predictions about the curse that has caught up with them. After running out of gas, making an emergency trip…
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REVIEW of The Penderwicks #2, #3, & #4, by Jeanne Birdsall

It’s been a weekend full of Penderwicks for me, and rather than write a separate post about each one, I’ll review them all here. In The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, the widower Mr. Penderwick finally begins dating again after his wife’s death five years prior. Mind you, he’s not too keen on the idea, and…
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REVIEW of The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks #1), by Jeanne Birdsall

The Penderwicks consist of one father, four sisters, and a dog named Hound. Rosalind is the eldest, just starting to daydream about romance. Skye is the blue-eyed one, full of spunk and sass. Jane is the third sister, an aspiring author with many a rhetorical flourish. And four-year-old Batty is the youngest, with a pair…