This sequel to The Lemonade War (2007), picking up just a few days later, focuses on how the fourth graders take justice into their own hands after learning that the main suspect in the case of the missing lemonade-stand money now owns the latest in game-box technology. Still, with its cartoon illustrations, well-leaded text and general goofiness, this retread is as likely to draw transitional readers as the perennial favorite Flat Stanley (1964) and its sequels.
Lambchop replies, “But things often happen without there seeming to be a reason, and then something else happens, and suddenly the first thing seems to have had a purpose after all.” Perhaps-even if that purpose is just to tread water, as Brown does here.
Alluding to previous episodes, Stanley complains, “Why me? Why am I always getting flat, or invisible, or something?” Mr. First he becomes a human spinnaker in a sailboat race, then he worms his way through the wreckage of a collapsed building to rescue ever-rude classmate Emma Weeks. Dan-Stanley Lambchop gets two more chances to play the hero before popping back into shape. 8-10)įlattened once more, this time not by a falling bulletin board but a double blow to his elusive “Osteal Balance Point”-or so says family GP Dr. Beautiful and evocative-an absolute “keeper.” (author’s note) (Fiction. Hall's black-and-white illustrations lend perspective and immediacy. Deftly spinning together mermaid lore, local legend and natural history, this stunning tale proves “every landscape has its magical beings,” and the most unlikely ones can form a perfect family. While the action occurs in a single day, Appelt relies on flashbacks to flesh out her diverse human, animal and mythical characters. But when she accidentally spoils everything, Keeper sets out under the blue moon in a small boat, determined to row across dangerous Gulf waters to find her mother. Keeper’s waited all summer for the blue moon, when Signe will make blue moon gumbo, their friend Dogie will propose to Signe and their elderly neighbor’s night-blooming cereus will flower. Since her mother swam away seven years ago, ten-year-old Keeper has lived happily with Signe on a remote slice of Texas coast, convinced that her mother’s a mermaid. On a day when everything goes wrong, a little girl relies on the magic of the blue moon to turn things around.
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