What Happened on Fox Street
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781611061123 (1611061121)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
Edition language: English
I just wasn't crazy about this book. The characters weren't fully realized, in fact, I failed to really connect with any of them. If I don't fall for at least one character in a story, it's no good for me. The voices were off. My 11-year-old daughter stated, "What 10-year-old would say that?!". ...
This is a nice, homey story about a girl and her extended family of neighbors and friends. It's a really nice summer book and evokes the season and setting very well. The dialogue grated on me a little bit and felt unrealistic; the descriptions, while nice and poetic, sometimes disrupted the flow of...
The author does a particularly fine job of capturing a child's perspective of the street you live on being the whole world.