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A fun, charming read. It's younger YA, and filled with the bigger-than-her-age voice that makes Pride taking up the parenting role believable. The pacing was a bit slow, and I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected, but probably only because I prefer upper YA, and I've read a lot of teens-acting-as-p...
I have a weakness for books likeHomecoming and Where the Lilies Bloom, where resourceful kids have to take care of themselves when adults have left them. Keeping Safe the Stars is in that vein, and quite charming. While I think enjoyment of it may depend on your tolerance for whimsey, I did like it ...
Life has been filled with upheavals for the Stars. Their father died of cancer, their mother died in a car accident. The kids were in foster care until the grandfather they didn't really know came to get them out. He took them to his farm in Minnesota to raise. He was something of a hermit; a former...
An OK story overall. The prose was what made the story memorable. Without it, this story would not have held up well.
in a sentence or so: Raine and her mother move to Sparrow Road, a summer home for artists. while there, Raine discovers some mysteries that need solving at the aged mansion, as well as some surprising mysteries within her own life.Raine loves her family. her Grandpa Mac and her Mama are all she's kn...
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