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Absolutely Truly
by Heather Vogel Frederick
Truly Lovejoy comes from a long line of Lovejoys. When her father is injured in Afghanistan and loses his arm, the family picks up and moves to his hometown in New Hampshire. JT can't be a pilot with only one arm and his injury has turned him into Silent Man. Truly misses her joking father and feels like she is invisible in her family of seven. It doesn't help that her math grades are bad and she has to be tutored by her dad before he will let her join the swim team.
JT and his sister True have taken over the family bookstore, Lovejoy's Books, while their parents join the Peace Corp. Truly isn't thrilled with leaving Texas or her best friend. In Pumpkin Falls, she tries to go into stealth mode, but being 6-feet tall and new in a small town she definitely stands out. She is soon friends with Lucas and Cha Cha and solving a 20-year-old mystery. While helping out in the shop she finds an unmailed letter in a first edition of Charlotte's Web. The clues in the letter lead the friends allover Pumpkin Falls and introduces them to a lot of interesting characters around town.
I really enjoy small town books with quirky characters and Pumpkin Falls seems to have its share. There is the busybody postmistress, the bag lady who seems to carry kittens in every pocked and the helicopter mom who can't seem to let Lucas grow up. Pumpkin Falls also has a winter festival and a required cotillion for the middle schoolers. Then there is the frozen waterfalls and the fact that the town was founded by a Lovejoy. It all adds up to an interesting story. I liked the fish-out-of-water aspect of Truly's tale and the fact that her dad is a wounded warrior. I thought the mystery aspect wasn't that interesting and didn't really add much to the story; however, the rest of it was really entertaining and a fun read.
JT and his sister True have taken over the family bookstore, Lovejoy's Books, while their parents join the Peace Corp. Truly isn't thrilled with leaving Texas or her best friend. In Pumpkin Falls, she tries to go into stealth mode, but being 6-feet tall and new in a small town she definitely stands out. She is soon friends with Lucas and Cha Cha and solving a 20-year-old mystery. While helping out in the shop she finds an unmailed letter in a first edition of Charlotte's Web. The clues in the letter lead the friends allover Pumpkin Falls and introduces them to a lot of interesting characters around town.
I really enjoy small town books with quirky characters and Pumpkin Falls seems to have its share. There is the busybody postmistress, the bag lady who seems to carry kittens in every pocked and the helicopter mom who can't seem to let Lucas grow up. Pumpkin Falls also has a winter festival and a required cotillion for the middle schoolers. Then there is the frozen waterfalls and the fact that the town was founded by a Lovejoy. It all adds up to an interesting story. I liked the fish-out-of-water aspect of Truly's tale and the fact that her dad is a wounded warrior. I thought the mystery aspect wasn't that interesting and didn't really add much to the story; however, the rest of it was really entertaining and a fun read.