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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
mysterious
This is a fun read with the story over three days from four different perspectives. Each perspective got to go through the same three days and revealed different details. Characters were well developed.
Read this for a book club I’m doing at work and surprisingly enough I really liked it. I think it’s going to have some fun discussions with the kids. It was a pretty thick book but it was just a super easy read honestly. I think the redundancy of the povs were a choice. I can’t wait to see why the kids think what the reason was that Wendy mass decided to it like that. Overall just a sweet read
Such a fun book about a candy store. What could you possibly not like about this book?
2.5 stars
I find myself pleading with authors "Please please please do not write a bunch of statistically impossibly coincidences into your book so that everything works out perfectly." I think this author's response was something like "You know what? I'm going to write even more statistically impossible coincidences now AND I'm going to do that bringing someone back from the dead thing you hate too! Ha!"
Once we finish reading from the perspective of each kid, they all decide to become best friends and work together and save the factory! Yay! And they also decide to talk about, process, and move forward from any negative thing that has ever happened in their past, in the space of like 12 hours. Not believable. Not relatable.
The structure and setting of this book were my favorite parts. It was going on 4/5 stars up until about three quarters of the way through when all this *gestures to above paragraphs* started happening. As a kid, I know these things would not have bothered me as much, so this is still a book I would read to my kids. Maybe.
I find myself pleading with authors "Please please please do not write a bunch of statistically impossibly coincidences into your book so that everything works out perfectly." I think this author's response was something like "You know what? I'm going to write even more statistically impossible coincidences now AND I'm going to do that bringing someone back from the dead thing you hate too! Ha!"
Once we finish reading from the perspective of each kid, they all decide to become best friends and work together and save the factory! Yay! And they also decide to talk about, process, and move forward from any negative thing that has ever happened in their past, in the space of like 12 hours. Not believable. Not relatable.
The structure and setting of this book were my favorite parts. It was going on 4/5 stars up until about three quarters of the way through when all this *gestures to above paragraphs* started happening. As a kid, I know these things would not have bothered me as much, so this is still a book I would read to my kids. Maybe.
I found this book while browsing the childrens dept. at Barnes and Noble. It was on the shelf with other newly written, popular books. I had never read anything.by Wendy Mass, but I have her Jeremy Fink book on my to-read pile. If I were to describe it in one phrase in relation to other childrens lit it would be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets The Mysterious Benedict Society. It was a quick read and I can totally see why so many students at the elementry school I work at were reading it.
4.5 stars!
This was so cute! It was not as quick a read as I thought it would be, and I never got completely sucked in, but it was worth the read!
What kid doesn't dream of living in a candy factory? This novel brings that dream to life and it was so well done. The characters were so different but were able to come together to solve a mystery.
Looking forward to reading the sequel!
This was so cute! It was not as quick a read as I thought it would be, and I never got completely sucked in, but it was worth the read!
What kid doesn't dream of living in a candy factory? This novel brings that dream to life and it was so well done. The characters were so different but were able to come together to solve a mystery.
Looking forward to reading the sequel!
This book is amazing-- different points of view, lots of cliff hangers, many surprises. I couldn't put it down.