Bazan Librarians Review...

  “Caterpillar Summer” by Gillian McDunn This is a touching story of a mother and her two children Cat (11yrs old) and her brother Chicken (7 yrs. old). Their father died when they were little. So, Cat had to take care of her brother a lot. They had been planning a three-week summer vacation to visit some friends that lived in Atlanta. The mother had some work there to do. So, once they arrived in Atlanta the vacation plans had changed the family that they were visiting had to go out of country. So, their mother had to make a quick decision where to take the children to stay because she had to do some work in Atlanta, and she could not leave the kids by themselves. The children are force to go stay with the grandparents in North Carolina on an island who they had never seen or knew about them. Their mother and her father had not talk to each other during all this time. During this time, the children bonded with their grandparents and fell in love with them. Cat began to wonde...

    The Strangers” by Margaret Peterson Haddix. The story is all about adventures, plots, and mysteries. This story involves three children and their mother. The children names are Chess, Emma, and Finn. The story starts out where the mother is in the kitchen on her laptop and the kids come in and find their mother in a daze. The kids hear a voice saying that three kids in Arizona had been kidnapped. The strange thing about it the kids in some way had the same names as Chess, Emma, and Finn. And what made it stranger they all had the same birthdays. Mom tells the kids that she must go out of town to do some work and they will be staying with a lady that they do not even know. As the story goes the kids find that the mother is into something that she might not know how to handle the situation. With the help of the daughter of the lady that is watching them the kids set off to find their mother. They find their mother’s phone with pre-recorded messages to the kids as well ...