![]() ![]() ![]() Themes involve friends, differences, imagination and secrets. ![]() I think this would have been a perfect book for me around age nine. They got things into a mess and then expected a girl to get them out of it.” “Well,” April and Melanie said to each other–only just with a look, not out loud, “wasn’t that like a boy. Imagination time becomes compromised when a real-life murder occurs in a nearby neighborhood and their parents are reluctant to allow them outside. Other people are added to their imaginative play. They start out telling stories with Melanie’s elaborate paper families but it soon progresses into playacting when they discover an apparently abandoned back yard. All of that changes when she meets the upstairs girl, Melanie, her precocious four-year-old brother, Marshall, and his adorable stuffed octopus, Security. I found it reasonably entertaining, although I couldn’t help wishing it was fleshed out a little further.Īpril has been sent to live with her grandmother and she is resenting it. ![]() Based on Wanda’s excellent review, as well as my own fondness for ancient Egypt, I picked up this young adult book to see what I was missing. ![]()
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