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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Sofie's family inherits a farm, and she desperately wants to have chickens. She writes letters to her dead grandmother, great uncle, and a local farmer to talk about her life, and also about the chickens that start appearing on the farm. A neighbor is also trying to steal the chickens. Can Sofie save them and the farm?
I really liked this book. I'm a fan of novels in letters, and Sofie is adorable and a great protagonist.
I really liked this book. I'm a fan of novels in letters, and Sofie is adorable and a great protagonist.
Charming and weird. I am delighted by this book's resolution to the conundrum of how to solve problems caused by magic, when you're not allowed to talk about magic.
Read aloud with my 13 year old. 2.5 stars, rounded down. She was into this one more than I was, but I found myself just wanting to fly through it to finish it. The letter style of the book is cute and I feel like it almost works, but parts get really bogged down in looong scenes where this happens and then this happens and then, oh my gosh, this thing happened next, and, well, you get the picture. Also, I didn’t like the dad character at all — he’s mopey, powerless, and has to ask the mom (who has no time for anyone) how to do everything. Overall, super meh.
Read aloud for homeschool bookclub. This book is told in letters and would be better read to yourself, not aloud. It was a little difficult aloud. We have 12 baby chicks and this was the perfect book to read as we start our chicken adventure. Without the chickens, this would have been more of a 3 star read.
A fun middle-grade mystery of sorts about a girl who inherits a flock of odd chickens. It's told through letters she writes, which is kind of an odd device, but it's a fun little book.
This was a fun read. I enjoyed getting to know the main character through the letters she wrote.
I expected this to be charming based on the title and description, but it was even more charming than I had anticipated. It touches briefly on a lot of real life situations and difficulties without getting at all bogged down by them.
Sophie and her parents have just inherited a great-uncle's farm and moved there, since her dad lost his job and they can't afford to live in LA anymore. Sophie finds some of her uncle's chickens wandering the neighborhood and starts learning more about chicken farming in general and about unusual chickens--that can levitate, go invisible, or zip around at high speed--in particular.
So it's about a girl learning to be a chicken farmer and deal with a big life change. But it's also about saying goodbye to people who have died, and it touches lightly on the tension in her family over her father's lost job, being a brown girl in a white community, that not all wrong decisions are made by bad people, and a lot of other pretty big ideas. A lovely and really fun book!
Sophie and her parents have just inherited a great-uncle's farm and moved there, since her dad lost his job and they can't afford to live in LA anymore. Sophie finds some of her uncle's chickens wandering the neighborhood and starts learning more about chicken farming in general and about unusual chickens--that can levitate, go invisible, or zip around at high speed--in particular.
So it's about a girl learning to be a chicken farmer and deal with a big life change. But it's also about saying goodbye to people who have died, and it touches lightly on the tension in her family over her father's lost job, being a brown girl in a white community, that not all wrong decisions are made by bad people, and a lot of other pretty big ideas. A lovely and really fun book!
I was pulled in immediately by the format and narrator's voice and was so enamored that I finished it in 2 days, even reading the book on my phone before a concert, ignoring my mother. Perfect balance of humor and conflict, plus the reader learns about chickens. Great book for upper elementary and middle school readers who enjoy funny, realistic fiction.